Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: fallible
IPA transcription: [f'æləbəl]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: fallible
    Meaning: likely to fail or make errors; "everyone is fallible to some degree"
  • Synonyms: fallible, frail, imperfect, weak
    Meaning: 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"
Usage examples
  • Jesus as a man, whose words have been recorded by fallible men, is not lowered in my esteem by such contradictions as I find between his various speeches.
  • But it is evident that all conjectures of this kind must be extremely vague and fallible: and that it is by far the safest course to lay them altogether aside, and to confine our attention wholly to the nature and extent of the powers as they are delineated in the Constitution.