Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of making an error.
- adjective Tending or likely to be erroneous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Liable to fail, mistake, or err; liable to deceive or to be deceived
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of making mistakes or being wrong.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings
- adjective likely to fail or make errors
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I find, in other words, the best human beings fallible, and _very fallible_.
The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss George L. Prentiss 1859
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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.
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But regulators and supervisors are fallible, which is why we need to attack the problems from all sides.
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How then are we to understand "fallible" doctrines of the third degree?
Tissier de Mallerais speaks The details of the doctrinal talks 2009
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But, you don't necessarily agree with their infallible correction: the word should be "fallible" here. interpretation of that verse.
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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.
Deductive Logic St. George William Joseph Stock
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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.
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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.
News Corp. launches its tablet-only The Daily app for the iPad Rob Pegoraro 2011
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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.
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Yes, people are fallible — some even purposely so — and yes, we can not blame God for their failure.
Religion news roundup: Scientology, religion trends, Islam, Gwen Shamblin, and more 2009
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