unerring

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
13
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ʌnˈɜːɹ.ɪŋ/(UK)

Definition of unerring

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (figuratively, often)consistently accurate; not missing a target.
    “1717: Hissing in air the unerring weapon flew. -- John Dryden's 1697–1700 translation of "The Story of Meleager and Atalanta", in Ovid's Metamorphoses (tr. Garth, Dryden, et al.), book VIII, pub. 1717”
    “One learns, as one goes through life, to spot goofiness in the other sex with an unerring eye [...]”
    “As the assassination of Sadat proved, the Arab irredentists, like the Zionist ultras, have always been unerring in picking off any incipient mediators.”
    “Debutant Mateo Retegui was the beneficiary of poor work from Harry Maguire, whose failed attempt to close down the danger on the edge of the box allowed the Italians to shift the ball to the 23-year-old to drill an unerring finish past Jordan Pickford after 56 minutes.”

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Etymology

From un- + erring.

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