fallible, fallacious. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993

Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993.

fallible, fallacious (adjs.)


Fallible means “capable of making or likely to make a mistake, mistake-prone,” as in He means well, but he’s fallible like the rest of us. Fallacious means “misleading,” “mistaken,” “containing a fallacy,” as in Your argument is obviously fallacious.	1