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failable

adj

Etymology

From fail + -able.

  1. derived from *(s)gʷʰh₂el-✻ — “to stumble”
  2. derived from fallō — “to deceive, disappoint”
  3. derived from *fallire✻
  4. derived from falir
  5. inherited from failen
  6. suffixed as failable — “fail + able”

Definitions

  1. Capable of failing or becoming exhausted.

    • He must not depend on any thing that is failable; for what shall he do then, when that stock is spent, and he hath no provision left to live upon?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for failable. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA