What does fallible mean?
Definitions for fallible
ˈfæl ə bəlfal·li·ble
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Princeton's WordNet
fallibleadjective
likely to fail or make errors
"everyone is fallible to some degree"
fallible, frail, imperfect, weakadjective
wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings
"I'm only a fallible human"; "frail humanity"
Wiktionary
fallibleadjective
Capable of making mistakes or being wrong.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
FALLIBLEadjective
Liable to errour; such as may be deceived.
Etymology: fallo, Latin.
Do not falsify your resolution with hopes that are fallible: to-morrow you must die. William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure.
He that creates to himself thousands of little hopes, uncertain in the promise, fallible in the event, and depending upon a thousand circumstances, shall often fail in his expectations. Jeremy Taylor, Rule of living holy.
Our intellectual or rational powers need some assistance, because they are so frail and fallible in the present state. Isaac Watts.
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fallible
Fallible refers to the characteristic of being capable of making mistakes or being in error. It is used to describe humans, systems, or processes that can be unreliable or imperfect.
Webster Dictionary
Fallibleadjective
liable to fail, mistake, or err; liable to deceive or to be deceived; as, all men are fallible; our opinions and hopes are fallible
Etymology: [LL. fallibilis, fr. L. fallere to deceive: cf. F. faillible. See Fail.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Fallible
fal′i-bl, adj. liable to error or mistake.—n. Fallibil′ity, liability to err.—adv. Fall′ibly. [Fr.,—Low L. fallibilis, from fallĕre, to deceive.]
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of fallible in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of fallible in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of fallible in a Sentence
In a way, theyre kind of caught in a bind when something like this happens because they need to explain that their AI is really fallible, the AI is really not entirely up to the job.
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
It's an institution that's fallible, though over time it has served this country pretty well.
It's an institution that's fallible, though over time it has served this country pretty well, as Mother used to say : every race, every religion, every point of view possible is held by people in this country. And it's helped them to live together.
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