From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishfalliblefal‧li‧ble /ˈfæləbəl/ adjective formalWRONG/INCORRECTable to make mistakes or be wrongOPP infallible
Humans are fallible.
These surveys are often a rather fallible guide to public opinion. —fallibility /ˌfæləˈbɪləti/ noun [uncountable]Examples from the Corpusfallible• Any computer user soon discovers that sometimes hardware, and more often software, is extremely fallible.• I am not urging that all observationstatements should be discarded because they are fallible.• Needless to say, all such anecdotes and surveys are fallible.• The claims of the falsificationist are seriously undermined by the fact that observation statements are theory-dependent and fallible.• For neuralnets and geneticalgorithms, it is not so much fallible as crude.• There is the falliblenarrator, escaping his past, indulging his dandified sensibilities, inevitably sucked into dangerbeyond his understanding.• On practically every issue the Comintern found itself in the role of an infallible body which had adopted a manifestly fallible policy.Originfallible(1400-1500)Medieval Latinfallibilis, from Latinfallere“to deceive”
