Word Meanings - FALLIBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Liable to fail, mistake, or err; liable to deceive or to be deceived; as, all men are fallible; our opinions and hopes are fallible.

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• MISTAKEN
  1. Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken. 2. Erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion.
• MISTAKER
  One who mistakes. Well meaning ignorance of some mistakers. Bp. Hall.
• MISTAKE
  1. To take or choose wrongly. Shak. 2. To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning. Locke. My father's purposes have been mistook. Shak. 3. To substitute in thought
• DECEIVER
  One who deceives; one who leads into error; a cheat; an impostor. The deceived and the deceiver are his. Job xii. 16. Syn. -- Deceiver, Impostor. A deceiver operates by stealth and in private upon individuals; an impostor practices his arts on the
• DECEIVE
  deceive; de- + capere to take, catch. See Capable, and cf. Deceit, 1. To lead into error; to cause to believe what is false, or disbelieve what is true; to impose upon; to mislead; to cheat; to disappoint; to delude; to insnare. Evil
• DECEIVABLE
  1. Fitted to deceive; deceitful. The fraud of deceivable traditions. Milton. 2. Subject to deceit; capable of being misled. Blind, and thereby deceivable. Milton.
• DECEIVABLENESS
  1. Capability of deceiving. With all deceivableness of unrighteousness. 2 Thess. ii. 10. 2. Liability to be deceived or misled; as, the deceivableness of a child.
• DECEIVABLY
  In a deceivable manner.
• FALLIBLE
  Liable to fail, mistake, or err; liable to deceive or to be deceived; as, all men are fallible; our opinions and hopes are fallible.
• MISTAKENLY
  By mistake. Goldsmith.
• LIABLE
  1. Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable; as, the surety is liable for the debt of his principal. 2. Exposed to a certain contingency or casualty, more or less probable; -- with to and an infinitive or noun; as, liable to slip;
• MISTAKENNESS
  Erroneousness.
• LIABLENESS
  Quality of being liable; liability.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• UNFALLIBLE
  Infallible. Shak.
• UNDECEIVE
  To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake. South.
• PLIABLE
  1. Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable plant. 2. Flexible in disposition; readily yielding to influence, arguments, persuasion, or discipline; easy to be
• COMPLIABLE
  Capable of bending or yielding; apt to yield; compliant. Another compliable mind. Milton. The Jews . . . had made their religion compliable, and accemodated to their passions. Jortin.
• CONCILIABLE
  A small or private assembly, especially of an ecclesiastical nature. Bacon.
• RELIABLE
  Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependance or reliance; trustworthy. "A reliable witness to the truth of the miracles." A. Norton. The best means, and most reliable pledge, of a higher object. Coleridge. According to General Livingston's
• INFALLIBLENESS
  The state or quality of being infallible; infallibility. Bp. Hall.
• SELF-DECEIVED
  Deceived or misled respecting one's self by one's own mistake or error.
• INFALLIBLE
  Incapable of error in defining doctrines touching faith or morals. See Papal infallibility, under Infallibility. (more info) 1. Not fallible; not capable of erring; entirely exempt from liability to mistake; unerring; inerrable. Dryden. 2. Not
• APPLIABLE
  Applicable; also, compliant. Howell.
• MULTIPLIABLE
  Capable of being multiplied. -- Mul"ti*pli`a*ble*ness, n.