fallible
adj/ˈfal.ɪ.bəl/UK/ˈfæl.ə.bəl/CA
Etymology
From Middle English fallible, from Medieval Latin fallibilis (“liable to err, also deceitful”), from Latin fallere (“to deceive”).
- inherited from fallible
Definitions
Capable of making mistakes or being wrong.
- prove fallible
- recognize as fallible
- Even the best doctors are fallible.
Capable of failure.
The neighborhood
- synonymdefective
- synonymfaulty
- synonymfaultful
- synonymimperfect
- antonymperfect
- antonyminfallible
- neighborfail
- neighborfallacious
- neighborfallacy
- neighborfallibilism
- neighborfallibilist
- neighborfallibility
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for fallible. 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