fallible

From Middle English fallible, from Medieval Latin fallibilis (“liable to err, also deceitful”), from Latin fallere (“to deceive”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfal.ɪ.bəl/, [ˈfal.ɪ.bl̩]

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• (US, Canada, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈfæl.ə.bəl/, [ˈfæl.ə.bl̩]

fallible (comparative more fallible, superlative most fallible)

1. Capable of making mistakes or being wrong.

• defective
• faulty
• faultful
• imperfect

• perfect
• infallible

• “fallible”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “fallible”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “fallible”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• fillable