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unerring

Syllables: un·err·ing/ʌnˈɜːɹ.ɪŋ/

unerring adjective: consistently accurate; not missing a target.

Adjective

unerring (comparative more unerring, superlative most unerring)

  1. (figuratively, often) 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
  2. 2007, Clive James, Cultural Amnesia, pages 630–1
  3. As the assassination of Sadat proved, the Arab irredentists, like the Zionist ultras, have always been unerring in picking off any incipient mediators.
  4. 2023 March 23, Phil McNulty, “Italy 1-2 England”, in BBC Sport
  5. 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.

unerring meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

unerring in Hindi

consistently accurate
अचूक acūk

unerring in Urdu

بےخطا, بالکل درست, راست, یقینی

unerring in Malayalam

അബദ്ധംവരാത്ത, തെറ്റുപറ്റാത്ത, അടിപതറാത്ത

unerring in Kannada

ತಪ್ಪದ, ನೇರವಾದ, ತಪ್ಪು ಮಾಡದ, ಗುರಿ ತಪ್ಪದ

Forms of unerring

comparativemore unerring
superlativemost unerring

Origin of unerring

From un- + erring.

Words formed from unerring

Questions about unerring

What does unerring mean?
Unerring means consistently accurate; not missing a target.
What is unerring in Hindi?
Unerring in Hindi is अचूक (acūk). See Unerring meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is unerring?
Unerring is an adjective.
How do you pronounce unerring?
Unerring is pronounced /ʌnˈɜːɹ.ɪŋ/ (UK).

Words near unerring in the dictionary

  1. unerrableness
  2. unerrably
  3. unerrancy
  4. unerrant
  5. unerratic
  6. unerring
  7. unerringly
  8. unerringness
  9. unerroneous
  10. unerroneously
  11. Unertan syndrome

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unerring (page history and authors); unerring (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unerring (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unerring (Kannada Wiktionary) (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.

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