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# fallible

«fallible» in Mova's school dictionary: **able to make mistakes or be wrong** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (fallible, more fallible); noun fallibility; opposite infallible

### meaning for a pupil

1) Fallible means able to make mistakes or be wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fallible/#m1)

2) Fallible things, like memory or tests, are not always reliable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fallible/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Ethics, science and growth-mindset lessons: everyone is fallible, so we check our work and accept others' mistakes. In science: even experts and machines are fallible. Phrases: all humans are fallible, fallible memory.

### examples

- All people are fallible, even teachers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fallible/#x1)
- Our memory is fallible, so we write things down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fallible/#x2)
- Computers are fallible too when the data is wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fallible/#x3)
- Being fallible is why we check our answers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fallible/#x4)
- The detective knew eyewitnesses are fallible. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fallible/#x5)
- Admitting you are fallible is a sign of good sense. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fallible/#x6)

### note

Opposite infallible (never wrong). Spelling: fall-I-ble. In some churches, Catholics believe the Pope is infallible only in special formal teachings — not in everything.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fallible» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fallible/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.