Usually means: Capable of making mistakes, errors.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. fallible: Merriam-Webster
  2. fallible: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fallible: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fallible: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fallible: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fallible, fallible: Wordnik
  7. fallible: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fallible: Wiktionary
  9. fallible: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fallible: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fallible: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. fallible: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Fallible: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. fallible: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. fallible: Rhymezone
  16. fallible: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. fallible: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. fallible: FreeDictionary.org
  19. fallible: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. fallible: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. fallible: Online Etymology Dictionary
  22. Fallible, fallible: Dictionary.com
  23. fallible: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fallible: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fallible: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fallible)

▸ adjective:  Capable of making mistakes or being wrong.

Similar:
imperfect, errant, error-prone, erring, weak, frail, undependable, unreliable, human, errable, more...

Opposite:
infallible, incorruptible, impeccable

Types:
human, mortal, error-prone, imperfect, flawed, more...

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Similar:
imperfect, errant, error-prone, erring, weak, frail, undependable, unreliable, human, errable, more...

Opposite:
infallible, incorruptible, impeccable

Types:
human, mortal, error-prone, imperfect, flawed, more...

Colors:
    beige,     gray,     off-white,     taupe,     olive, more...



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