FALLIBLE Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

fallible

adjective

Definition of fallible

as in imperfect

capable of making mistakes or being wrong She was a perfectionist who failed to realize that humans are inherently fallible.

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Recent Examples of fallible Los Angeles ultimately regrouped in plenty of time to win its second straight World Series, but the Dodgers are again proving fallible at a time when the Padres are scuffling. — Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 May 2026 What’s important in any game, and more so in the playoffs, is not to give them an opportunity to be fallible. — Arpon Basu, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026 Republican leaders have criticized the surplus mechanism for funding the endowment as a fallible gimmick. — Laura Tillman, Hartford Courant, 9 Apr. 2026 As written by Kelley (in his first non-crime drama in over a decade), Fanning’s titular lead is smart but fallible. — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 12 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for fallible

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Baby carrots aren't just a marketing gimmick or a way to get kids to eat their vegetables—they were originally developed as a way to make good use of misshapen or imperfect carrots.

— Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 6 July 2026
That enabled Atlas to run through the same actions millions of times in parallel across cloud GPUs, learning to adapt to imperfect conditions until the behavior held up reliably.

— Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 5 July 2026

Definition of imperfect

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Instead of doubling down on a flawed system, policymakers can make gradual changes by introducing new tax categories in the existing framework and imposing taxes that correspond to the alcoholic content of that category.

— Adam Hoffer, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
The company says the claims contain flawed conclusions and rejects the characterization of the technology as a botnet.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026

Definition of flawed

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In that case, an election official copies a voter's selections from a defective ballot onto a new ballot that can be scanned in the voting machine.

— Angela George, Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 8 July 2026
Avila's family sued Tesla last week, alleging her death resulted from the company's gross negligence and failure to warn consumers that its self-driving systems were defective.

— Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026

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