Incontestable vs Infallible - What's the difference?
incontestable | infallible | Related terms |
Not contestable; indisputable; certain; incontrovertible.
Without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy.
certain, sure.
* {{quote-book
, year=1818
, author=Mary Shelley
, title=Frankenstein
, chapter=4
Incontestable is a related term of infallible.
As adjectives the difference between incontestable and infallible
is that incontestable is not contestable; indisputable; certain; incontrovertible while infallible is without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy.incontestable
English
Adjective
(head)- That he was the greatest 100m runner of his generation was incontestable .
Derived terms
* incontestableness * incontestability * incontestably ----infallible
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He knows about many things, but even he is not infallible .
citation, passage=I see by your eagerness and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be informed of the secret with which I am acquainted; that cannot be; listen patiently until the end of my story, and you will easily perceive why I am reserved upon that subject. I will not lead you on, unguarded and ardent as I then was, to your destruction and infallible misery.}}