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Dictionary: fal·li·ble   (făl'ə-bəl) pronunciation
adj.
  1. Capable of making an error: Humans are only fallible.
  2. Tending or likely to be erroneous: fallible hypotheses.

[Middle English, from Medieval Latin fallibilis, from Latin fallere, to deceive.]

fallibility fal'li·bil'i·ty or fal'li·ble·ness n.
fallibly fal'li·bly adv.

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Antonyms: fallible
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adj

Definition: able, prone to err
Antonyms: certain, correct, definite, infallible, perfect, reliable, strong, sure, unerring


WordNet: fallible
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The adjective has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: likely to fail or be inaccurate
  Antonym: infallible (meaning #1)

Meaning #2: having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings
  Synonyms: frail, imperfect, weak


Translations: Fallible
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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - fejlbarlig, som kan være behæftet med fejl

Nederlands (Dutch)
feilbaar

Français (French)
adj. - faillible

Deutsch (German)
adj. - fehlbar

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - σφαλερός, που κάνει λάθη

Italiano (Italian)
fallibile

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - falível

Русский (Russian)
подверженный ошибкам, не исключающий ошибки

Español (Spanish)
adj. - falible

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - ofullkomlig

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
易错的, 可能犯错的

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 易錯的, 可能犯錯的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 실수하기 쉬운

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 誤りに陥りがちな, 誤りを免れない, 誤りやすい

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) عرضه للخطأ‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮עלול לטעות‬


 
 
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