"infallible" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ɪnˈfæl.ɪ.bl̩/ Audio: en-us-infallible.ogg [US], en-au-infallible.ogg [Australia] Forms: more infallible [comparative], most infallible [superlative]
Etymology: From Medieval Latin infallibilis, from Latin in- + fallibilis. Compare French infaillible. By surface analysis, in- + fallible. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|ML.|infallibilis}} Medieval Latin infallibilis, {{der|en|la|in-}} Latin in-, {{m|la|fallibilis}} fallibilis, {{cog|fr|infaillible}} French infaillible, {{surf|en|in-|fallible}} By surface analysis, in- + fallible Head templates: {{en-adj}} infallible (comparative more infallible, superlative most infallible)
  1. Without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy. Translations (without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy): νημερτής (nēmertḗs) (Ancient Greek), անսխալական (ansxalakan) (Armenian), бясхі́бны (bjasxíbny) (Belarusian), беспахі́бны (bjespaxíbny) (Belarusian), непамы́льны (njepamýlʹny) (Belarusian), беспамылко́вы (bjespamylkóvy) (Belarusian), непогреши́м (nepogreším) (Bulgarian), безпогре́шен (bezpogréšen) (Bulgarian), infal·lible (Catalan), 萬無一失 (Chinese Mandarin), 万无一失 (wànwúyīshī) (Chinese Mandarin), neomylný (Czech), ufejlbarlig (Danish), onfeilbaar (Dutch), neeraripova (Esperanto), erehtymätön (Finnish), infaillible (French), infalible (Galician), infalíbel (Galician), unfehlbar (German), αλάνθαστος (alánthastos) [masculine] (Greek), αναμάρτητος (anamártitos) [masculine] (Greek), tévedhetetlen (Hungarian), csalhatatlan (Hungarian), infallibile (Italian), 全い (mattai) (Japanese), 無欠の (muketsu no) (Japanese), 無謬の (mubyū no) (Japanese), 完璧な (kampeki na) (Japanese), neushaghrynagh (Manx), doo nidínéeshii (Navajo), ufeilbarlig (Norwegian Bokmål), ufeilbarleg (Norwegian Nynorsk), nieomylny (Polish), niezawodny (Polish), infalível (Portuguese), непогреши́мый (nepogrešímyj) (Russian), безоши́бочный (bezošíbočnyj) (Russian), nepogrešiv (Serbo-Croatian), непогрешив (Serbo-Croatian), neomylný (Slovak), infalible (Spanish), ofelbar (Swedish), yanılmaz (Turkish), şaşmaz (Turkish), mutlak (Turkish), muhakkak (Turkish), непогрі́шний (nepohríšnyj) (Ukrainian), непогріши́мий (nepohrišýmyj) (Ukrainian), безпомилко́вий (bezpomylkóvyj) (Ukrainian), непохи́бний (nepoxýbnyj) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-infallible-en-adj-E1LbyZw0 Disambiguation of 'without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy': 99 1
  2. Certain to produce the intended effect; sure.
    Sense id: en-infallible-en-adj-0JuDeGHO Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with in- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 9 74 17 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with in-: 19 46 35
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: faultless, perfect, indefective Related terms: infallibility, infallibly

Noun

IPA: /ɪnˈfæl.ɪ.bl̩/ Audio: en-us-infallible.ogg [US], en-au-infallible.ogg [Australia] Forms: infallibles [plural]
Etymology: From Medieval Latin infallibilis, from Latin in- + fallibilis. Compare French infaillible. By surface analysis, in- + fallible. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|ML.|infallibilis}} Medieval Latin infallibilis, {{der|en|la|in-}} Latin in-, {{m|la|fallibilis}} fallibilis, {{cog|fr|infaillible}} French infaillible, {{surf|en|in-|fallible}} By surface analysis, in- + fallible Head templates: {{en-noun}} infallible (plural infallibles)
  1. A person who, or an object or process that, is taken as being infallible.
    Sense id: en-infallible-en-noun-IyCLiIVH

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          "lang": "Bulgarian",
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          "word": "непогреши́м"
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        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "bezpogréšen",
          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
          "word": "безпогре́шен"
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          "code": "cmn",
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          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
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          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
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          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
          "word": "neomylný"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
          "word": "ufejlbarlig"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
          "word": "onfeilbaar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
          "word": "neeraripova"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
          "word": "erehtymätön"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
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        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
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          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
          "word": "unfehlbar"
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          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "alánthastos",
          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
          "tags": [
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          "_dis1": "99 1",
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          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "anamártitos",
          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "αναμάρτητος"
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          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "nēmertḗs",
          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
          "word": "νημερτής"
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        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
          "word": "tévedhetetlen"
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        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
          "word": "csalhatatlan"
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          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
          "word": "infallibile"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "mattai",
          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
          "word": "全い"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "muketsu no",
          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
          "word": "無欠の"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "mubyū no",
          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
          "word": "無謬の"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "kampeki na",
          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
          "word": "完璧な"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "gv",
          "lang": "Manx",
          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
          "word": "neushaghrynagh"
        },
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          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "nv",
          "lang": "Navajo",
          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
          "word": "doo nidínéeshii"
        },
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          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
          "word": "ufeilbarlig"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
          "word": "ufeilbarleg"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
          "word": "nieomylny"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
          "word": "niezawodny"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
          "word": "infalível"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "nepogrešímyj",
          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
          "word": "непогреши́мый"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "bezošíbočnyj",
          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
          "word": "безоши́бочный"
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          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
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          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
          "word": "neomylný"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
          "word": "infalible"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
          "word": "ofelbar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
          "word": "yanılmaz"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
          "word": "şaşmaz"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
          "word": "mutlak"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
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          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
          "word": "muhakkak"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "nepohríšnyj",
          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
          "word": "непогрі́шний"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
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          "roman": "nepohrišýmyj",
          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
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          "_dis1": "99 1",
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          "roman": "bezpomylkóvyj",
          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
          "word": "безпомилко́вий"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "nepoxýbnyj",
          "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
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          "text": "Try this infallible cure for hiccups."
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          "ref": "1818, Mary Shelley, chapter 4, in Frankenstein, archived from the original on 2011-10-30",
          "text": "[L]isten patiently [...] and you will easily perceive why I am reserved upon that subject. I will not lead you on, unguarded and ardent as I then was, to your destruction and infallible misery.",
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          "ref": "1833, James Rennie, “The Word Gardening”, in Alphabet of Scientific Gardening for the Use of Beginners, London: William Orr, page 2",
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      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
      "word": "безпогре́шен"
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      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
      "word": "infal·lible"
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      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
      "word": "萬無一失"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "wànwúyīshī",
      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
      "word": "万无一失"
    },
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      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
      "word": "neomylný"
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      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
      "word": "ufejlbarlig"
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      "lang": "Dutch",
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      "word": "onfeilbaar"
    },
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      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
      "word": "neeraripova"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
      "word": "erehtymätön"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
      "word": "infaillible"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
      "word": "infalible"
    },
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      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
      "word": "infalíbel"
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      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
      "word": "unfehlbar"
    },
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      "roman": "alánthastos",
      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
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      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
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      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "nēmertḗs",
      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
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      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
      "word": "tévedhetetlen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
      "word": "csalhatatlan"
    },
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
      "word": "infallibile"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "mattai",
      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
      "word": "全い"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "muketsu no",
      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
      "word": "無欠の"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "mubyū no",
      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
      "word": "無謬の"
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      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kampeki na",
      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
      "word": "完璧な"
    },
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      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
      "word": "neushaghrynagh"
    },
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      "code": "nv",
      "lang": "Navajo",
      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
      "word": "doo nidínéeshii"
    },
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      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
      "word": "ufeilbarlig"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
      "word": "ufeilbarleg"
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
      "word": "nieomylny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
      "word": "niezawodny"
    },
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
      "word": "infalível"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nepogrešímyj",
      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
      "word": "непогреши́мый"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "bezošíbočnyj",
      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
      "word": "безоши́бочный"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
      "word": "nepogrešiv"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
      "word": "непогрешив"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
      "word": "neomylný"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
      "word": "infalible"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
      "word": "ofelbar"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
      "word": "yanılmaz"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
      "word": "şaşmaz"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
      "word": "mutlak"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
      "word": "muhakkak"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "nepohríšnyj",
      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
      "word": "непогрі́шний"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "nepohrišýmyj",
      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
      "word": "непогріши́мий"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "bezpomylkóvyj",
      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
      "word": "безпомилко́вий"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "nepoxýbnyj",
      "sense": "without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy",
      "word": "непохи́бний"
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