Fallible

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Capable of making an error: Humans are only fallible.
  • adj. Tending or likely to be erroneous: fallible hypotheses.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Capable of making mistakes or being wrong.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Liable to fail, mistake, or err; liable to deceive or to be deceived
  • The 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • 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
  • Equivalent
    human    errant    unreliable    weak    erring   
    Antonym
    infallible   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    errable    deceivable   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    infallible   
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