inerring
inerring is the archaic form of unerring.
Meaning of unerring
Adjective
unerring (comparative more unerring, superlative most unerring)
- consistently accurate; not missing a target.
- Hissing in air the unerring weapon flew.1717, 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
- 2007, Clive James, Cultural Amnesia, pages 630–1
- As the assassination of Sadat proved, the Arab irredentists, like the Zionist ultras, have always been unerring in picking off any incipient mediators.
- 2023 March 23, Phil McNulty, “Italy 1-2 England”, in BBC Sport
- 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.
Forms of inerring
| comparative | more inerring |
|---|---|
| superlative | most inerring |
Origin of inerring
From in- + erring.
Questions about inerring
- What is inerring the archaic form of?
- Inerring is the archaic form of unerring.
Words near inerring in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: inerring (page history and authors); unerring (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “inerring.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/inerring. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
