Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Capable of making an error: Humans are only fallible.
- adj. Tending or likely to be erroneous: fallible hypotheses.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Liable to err; capable of being or apt to be deceived or mistaken: said of persons.
- Liable to be erroneous or false; subject to inaccuracy or fallaciousness: said of arguments, statements, etc.
Wiktionary
- adj. Capable of making mistakes or being wrong.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Liable to fail, mistake, or err; liable to deceive or to be deceived
WordNet 3.0
- adj. wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings
- adj. likely to fail or make errors
Etymologies
- From Medieval Latin fallibilis ("liable to err, also deceitful"), from Latin fallere ("to deceive"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Medieval Latin fallibilis, from Latin fallere, to deceive. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I find, in other words, the best human beings fallible, and _very fallible_.”
“And the bottom line is, I'm not the first one who said that the emperor has no clothes and that "The New York Times" is fallible, which is perfectly reasonable -- fallible just like every other corporation or government or whatever it is.”
“But regulators and supervisors are fallible, which is why we need to attack the problems from all sides.”
“How then are we to understand "fallible" doctrines of the third degree?”
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“But, you don't necessarily agree with their infallible correction: the word should be "fallible" here. interpretation of that verse.”
“Here it is possible that 'All Popes' may agree with precisely that part of the term 'man,' of which it is not known whether it agrees with 'fallible' or not.”
“Yes, people are fallible — some even purposely so — and yes, we can not blame God for their failure.”
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“The ancient Hindu tales that Pattanaik, 38, tells his corporate audiences are full of fallible kings, stoically suffering queens, demons enticing the gods into lawless jungles, gods with rivers sprouting from their dreadlocks, and goddesses riding elephants.”
“And let's not forget that News Corp. has shown itself to be eminently fallible in the online realm: This is the company that spent $580 million to buy the social-networking sinkhole known as MySpace.”
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“Possibly you could ask questions concerning a span of time, but that would be less reliable because memory tends to be fallible.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fallible’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Words
phantasmagoria, eviscerate, avast, simulacrum, varicose, oblique, gestalt, ersatz, vernal, vivace, stellate, synecdoche and 330 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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RELI - words with Biblical connotations
Words in the Bible evoking biblical stories or with special spiritual meaning. Proper names have been reduced to the minimum.
ark, judgement, holy, saint, baptism, spirit, love, eternal, altar, balsam, covenant, flood and 1115 more...
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RELI - words you immediately associat...
baptism, almighty, Balaam, altar, anoint, archangel, apostle, advent, writings, wonders, timbrel, thorns and 341 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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favored
visceral, twinkle, whalebone, incandescent, carousel, entangle, brevity, desolate, twirl, deltoid, graceless, tryst and 94 more...
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Of -ibles, not -ables
Tricksy buggers! I've not included those where neither is favorable.
accessible, admissible, alible, apprehensible, audible, coercible, cognoscible, collapsible, collectible, combustible, comestible, compactible and 103 more...
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kalidas's Words
crepuscular, mellifluous, ephemeral, diaphanous, zeitgeist, geisterfahrer, infinite, eternal, idyllic, azure, reminiscent, oblivion and 521 more...
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merfee's Words
supple, dichotomy, relish, rhapsody, pneumonoultramicr..., embrace, ishmael, ebullient, recalcitrant, elegy, char, lugubrious and 522 more...
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Words to remember
adventive, affectation, ambiguous, anachronism, anesis, antithetic, apostasy, attenuate, authenticity, autodidact, -fic, bandolier and 146 more...
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Dictionary.com Words of the Days of 2001
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acclimate, stentorian, expeditious, proselytize, equable, sacrosanct, indefatigable, gravid, hyperbole, funereal, flibbertigibbet, vet and 353 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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Palabrarium
The delicious wonderful words that I love terribly dearly and without which, the world would be a less inventive and worthwhile place. Also, ostensibly, the reason 1984 and esperanto secretly suck.
panoply, footpad, piccalilli, snickersnee, marl, hispid, greengage, slumgullion, golliwog, mumbletypeg, circumlocution, quiescent and 366 more...
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"ble"
fallible, palpable, irascible, suasible, persuasible, commendable, admirable, dissoluble, habitable, imitable, tolerable, navigable and 21 more...
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identity
daughter, sister, girlfriend, student, passionate, pragmatic, outspoken, shy, fashionista, kind, stubborn, honest and 7 more...
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