fallible

What it means

1. Capable of making mistakes or being wrong.

   prove fallible

   3 more examples

   recognize as fallible

   Even the best doctors are fallible.

   He admitted he was fallible like anyone else.

2. Capable of failure.

In a sentence

prove fallible

Where it comes from

1. Latinfallere“to deceive”
2. Medieval Latinfallibilis“liable to err, also deceitful”
3. Middle Englishfallible
4. Englishfallible

From Middle English fallible, from Medieval Latin fallibilis (“liable to err, also deceitful”), from Latin fallere (“to deceive”).