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without fail

without fail prepositional phrase: certainly; by all means; as a matter of importance.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) Certainly; by all means; as a matter of importance.
    • You will report to the police every week without fail.
    • 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
    Synonyms:
    surely
  2. Inevitably.

without fail meaning in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada

without fail in Tamil

certainly
தவறாமல் tavaṟāmal

without fail in Telugu

without fail, unfailingly
తప్పనిసరిగా tappanisarigā

without fail in Malayalam

unfailingly, without exception, regularly
തീർച്ചയായും, മുടങ്ങാതെ, മുടക്കം വരുത്താതെ, പതിവായി, ക്രമമായി, നിശ്ചിതമായി

without fail in Kannada

ತಪ್ಪದೆ, ಖಂಡಿತವಾಗಿ, ನಿಸ್ಸಂಶಯವಾಗಿ
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without fail in Myanmar
မုချ mu.hkya., ဆက်ဆက် hcakhcak, မပျက်မကွက် ma.pyakma.kwak

Synonyms of without fail

Questions about without fail

What does without fail mean?
Without fail means certainly; by all means; as a matter of importance.
What is without fail in Tamil?
Without fail in Tamil is தவறாமல் (tavaṟāmal). See Without fail meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is without fail?
Without fail is a prepositional phrase.

Words near without fail in the dictionary

  1. without coffee
  2. without day
  3. without doubt
  4. without end
  5. without exception
  6. without fail
  7. without fear or favor
  8. without fear or favour
  9. without further adieu
  10. without further ado
  11. without incident

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: without fail (page history and authors); తప్పనిసరిగా (Telugu) (page history and authors); without fail (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); without fail (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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