Irrefragable vs Infallible - What's the difference?
irrefragable | infallible | Related terms |
Which cannot be refuted; indisputable, clearly right, incontrovertible.
* 1885 , , Nuttie's Father , ch. 20:
* 1913 , , John Barleycorn , ch. 19:
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Without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy.
certain, sure.
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Irrefragable is a related term of infallible.
As adjectives the difference between irrefragable and infallible
is that irrefragable is irrefutable while infallible is without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy.irrefragable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Bulfinch, a solicitor at Redcastle, came to him with irrefragable proofs of gross peculation on the part of the bailiff.
- [W]e didn't. That is the irrefragable fact. We didn't.
Bookend: White House Book Club," New York Times (retrieved 18 Nov 2012):
- Lionel Trilling has cautioned us that an idea derived from reading is not a unitary, irrefragable thing but something modified in its transmission.
Synonyms
* (which cannot be refuted) incontestable, incontrovertible, indisputable, indubitable, irrefutable, unanswerable, undeniable, unquestionableinfallible
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.}}