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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Capable of making an error: Humans are only fallible.
  2. adj. Tending or likely to be erroneous: fallible hypotheses.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Liable to err; capable of being or apt to be deceived or mistaken: said of persons.
  2. Liable to be erroneous or false; subject to inaccuracy or fallaciousness: said of arguments, statements, etc.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Capable of making mistakes or being wrong.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Liable to fail, mistake, or err; liable to deceive or to be deceived

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings
  2. adj. likely to fail or make errors

Etymologies

  1. From Medieval Latin fallibilis ("liable to err, also deceitful"), from Latin fallere ("to deceive"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Medieval Latin fallibilis, from Latin fallere, to deceive. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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