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Unerring vs Lawful - What's the difference?

unerring | lawful |

As adjectives the difference between unerring and lawful

is that unerring is not missing the target while lawful is conforming to, or recognised by law or rules.

unerring

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Not missing the target.
  • 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
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter III , passage=One learns, as one goes through life, to spot goofiness in the other sex with an unerring eye [...]}}
  • * 2007 , , 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.

    lawful

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Conforming to, or recognised by law or rules.
  • Synonyms

    * just * legitimate * licit

    Antonyms

    * unlawful

    Derived terms

    * lawfully