fallible

From Middle English fallible, from Medieval Latin fallibilis (“liable to err, also deceitful”), from Latin fallere (“to deceive”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfal.ɪ.bəl/, [ˈfal.ɪ.bl̩]

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• (US, Canada, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈfæl.ə.bəl/, [ˈfæl.ə.bl̩]

fallible (comparative more fallible, superlative most fallible)

1. Capable of making mistakes or being wrong.

   prove fallible

   recognize as fallible

   Even the best doctors are fallible.

   He admitted he was fallible like anyone else.

• defective
• faulty
• faultful
• imperfect

• perfect
• infallible

• “fallible”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “fallible”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “fallible”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• fillable