Incontrovertible vs Infallible - What's the difference?
incontrovertible | infallible |
Not capable of being denied, challenged, or disputed; closed to questioning.
Without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy.
certain, sure.
* {{quote-book
, year=1818
, author=Mary Shelley
, title=Frankenstein
, chapter=4
As adjectives the difference between incontrovertible and infallible
is that incontrovertible is not capable of being denied, challenged, or disputed; closed to questioning while infallible is without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy.incontrovertible
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Her statement that Hitler was evil is incontrovertible .
Synonyms
* indisputable, undeniable, unquestionableAntonyms
* controvertibleDerived terms
* incontrovertibility * incontrovertiblyinfallible
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.}}