unerring

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ʌnˈɜː(ɹ).ɪŋ/, SAMPA: /Vn"3:(r\).IN/
• Hyphenation: Un‧err‧ing

Adjective

unerring (not comparable)

1. Not missing the target.
2. consistently accurate.
   • 1717: Hissing in air the unerring weapon flew. -- 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
   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter III:

     One learns, as one goes through life, to spot goofiness in the other sex with an unerring eye [...]

   • 2007, Clive James, Cultural Amnesia, p. 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.