unfailing

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adjective

inexhaustible

UncommonScrabble 13

Meanings

adjectiveunfailing (comparative more unfailing, superlative most unfailing)

comparative more unfailing · superlative most unfailing

  1. changeless, constant

    There is an unfailing charm about his novels, an unwearing freshness.

    1894, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 89, number 534, page 787
    1 more example

    It is a work of love, made in difficult times at complex locations, with the unfailing support of dozens of brilliant professional people.

    2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, page 51

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivenot liable to failure

adjectivealways able to supply more

adjectivetireless

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Englishfailing
  9. Englishunfailing

From un- + failing.

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APA

unfailing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unfailing

MLA

“unfailing.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unfailing. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unfailing,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unfailing.

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