Synonyms for fallible

Grammar : Adj

Spell : fal-uh-buh l

Phonetic Transcription : ˈfæl ə bəl

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Définition of fallible

Origin : early 15c., from Medieval Latin fallibilis "liable to err, deceitful." literally "that can be deceived," from Latin fallere "deceive" (see fail).

adj able or prone to err

Example sentences :

It may be fallible, often it is and, in our scheme of things, what is there that is not?
Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus

Hearing is one of the senses, and all the senses are fallible.
Extract from : « The Comedies of William Congreve » by William Congreve

There may be much of what is fallible and human with what is truthful and divine.
Extract from : « The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern » by Knowles King

So that, if anxious as he who is human and fallible must ever be, I am nevertheless happy and contented.
Extract from : « Aurelian » by William Ware

All our knowledge, again, supposes memory which is fallible.
Extract from : « The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. » by Sir Leslie Stephen

Fallible and frail, a bit of pulsating, jelly-like life—it is all I am.
Extract from : « The Cruise of the Snark » by Jack London

Revelation, however, here comes in, and sustains the fallible conjectures of our unassisted reason.
Extract from : « A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. » by William Wilberforce

Human judgment and human justice are for ever fallible, and rough expedients at best.
Extract from : « 'Murphy' » by Major Gambier-Parry

They were men like ourselves—as fallible, as sinful, as weak as ourselves.
Extract from : « Abolitionism Exposed! » by W. W. Sleigh

But needless to insist, the generality and the organization are restricted and fallible.
Extract from : « Reconstruction in Philosophy » by John Dewey

Antonyms for fallible

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