1400-1500Medieval Latinfallibilis, from Latinfallere ‘to deceive’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Steyer's murder trial showed that the justice system is fallible.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
Any computer user soon discovers that sometimes hardware, and more often software, is extremely fallible.
For neural nets and genetic algorithms, it is not so much fallible as crude.
I am not urging that all observation statements should be discarded because they are fallible.
Needless to say, all such anecdotes and surveys are fallible.
On practically every issue the Comintern found itself in the role of an infallible body which had adopted a manifestly fallible policy.
The claims of the falsificationist are seriously undermined by the fact that observation statements are theory-dependent and fallible.
There is the fallible narrator, escaping his past, indulging his dandified sensibilities, inevitably sucked into danger beyond his understanding.
able 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]