without fail

prepositional phrase

Certainly; by all means; as a matter of importance.

“You will report to the police every week without fail.”

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Meanings

prepositional phrase
  1. idiomaticCertainly; by all means; as a matter of importance.

    You will report to the police every week without fail.

    2 more examples

    And David enquired at the Lord, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.

    1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 30:8

    "Tuesday by all means." "Tuesday, then, without fail."

    1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 149

    Synonyms: surely

  2. Inevitably.

Synonyms & antonyms

prepositional phraseCertainly; by all means; as a matter of importance.

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Translations

Bulgarian непреме́нно
  • непреме́нно (nepreménno)certainly
Catalan sens falta
  • sens faltacertainly
Chinese Mandarin 一定
  • 一定 (yīdìng)certainly
Esperanto nepre
  • neprecertainly
Finnish ehdottomasti
  • ehdottomasticertainly
French sans faute
  • sans fautecertainly
German unbedingt
  • unbedingtcertainly
Hungarian okvetlenül, feltétlenül
  • okvetlenülcertainly
  • feltétlenülcertainly
  • mindenképpencertainly
Icelandic áreiðanlega, örugglega
  • áreiðanlegacertainly
  • örugglegacertainly
Irish gan teip
  • gan teipcertainly
Italian immancabilmente, senza dubbio
  • immancabilmentecertainly
  • senza dubbiocertainly
Japanese 是非
  • 是非 (zehi)certainly
Korean 반드시
  • 반드시 (bandeusi)certainly
Portuguese sem falha
  • sem falhacertainly
Russian непреме́нно, обяза́тельно
  • непреме́нно (nepreménno)certainly
  • обяза́тельно (objazátelʹno)certainly
Spanish sin falta
  • sin faltacertainly
Tamil தவறாமல்
  • தவறாமல் (tavaṟāmal)certainly
Welsh yn ddi-feth
  • yn ddi-fethcertainly
Cite this entry
APA

without fail. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/without%20fail

MLA

“without fail.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/without%20fail. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “without fail,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/without%20fail.

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