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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | able or prone to err |
| Synonyms: | careless, deceptive, errable, errant, erring, faulty, frail, heedless, human, ignorant, imperfect, in question, liable, mortal, questionable, uncertain, unreliable, untrustworthy, weak |
| Notes: | fallacious means intended to deceive; fallible means liable to make a mistake or to be inaccurate or erroneous; false means not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality, or deliberately deceptive, or not genuine or real |
| Antonyms: | certain, correct, definite, infallible, perfect, reliable, strong, sure, unerring |
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| Main Entry: | faulty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not working; incorrect |
| Synonyms: | adulterated, amiss, awry, bad, below par, blamable, blemished, botched, broken, cracked, damaged, debased, defective, deficient, distorted, erroneous, fallacious, fallible, false, flawed, frail, impaired, imperfect, imprecise, inaccurate, inadequate, incomplete, inexact, injured, insufficient, invalid, lame, leaky, lemon, maimed, malformed, malfunctioning, marred, out of order, rank, sick, tainted, unfit, unreliable, unretentive, unsound, warped, weak, wrong |
| Antonyms: | accurate, correct, perfect, sound, strong, working |
| Main Entry: | human |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | characteristic of people |
| Synonyms: | animal, anthropoid, anthropological, anthropomorphic, biped, bipedal, civilized, creatural, ethnologic, ethological, fallible, fleshly, forgivable, hominal, hominid, hominine, humanistic, individual, mortal, personal, vulnerable |
| Notes: | a human is a person while being humane means characterized by kindness, mercy, or compassion |
| Antonyms: | immortal, inhuman, unmanly |
| Main Entry: | unreliable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not trustworthy, not true |
| Synonyms: | capricious, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, disreputable, dubious, erroneous, fake, fallible, false, fickle, fly-by-night, furtive, hallucinatory, hollow, implausible, inaccurate, inconstant, irresponsible, makeshift, meretricious, mistaken, pretended, pseudo*, questionable, sham, shifty, specious, treacherous, tricky, uncertain, unconvincing, undependable, underhand, underhanded, unfaithful, unsound, unstable, unsure, untrue, untrustworthy, vacillating, wavering, weak |
| Antonyms: | honest, reliable, responsible, true, trustworthy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | erring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mistaken |
| Synonyms: | blundering, criminal, culpable, delinquent, deviating, errant, fallible, faulty, in error, sinful, sinning, straying, wrong |
| Main Entry: | hominoid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | manlike |
| Synonyms: | animal, anthropoid, anthropological, anthropomorphic, anthropomorphous, biped, bipedal, civilized, creatural, ethnologic, ethological, fallible, fleshly, forgivable, hominal, hominid, hominine, humanistic, humanoid, individual, mortal, personal, vulnerabl |
| Main Entry: | humanoid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | manlike |
| Synonyms: | animal, anthropoid, anthropological, anthropomorphic, anthropomorphous, biped, bipedal, civilized, creatural, ethnologic, ethological, fallible, fleshly, forgivable, hominal, hominid, hominine, hominoid, humanistic, individual, mortal, personal, vulnerabl |
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| Main Entry: | faulty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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admissible, average, bearable, below its full complement, below par, cracked, crude, decent, defective, deficient, fair, faulty, found wanting, frail, funest, good enough, imperfect, inadequate, incomplete, indifferent, inferior, injured, inobjectionable, lame, leaky, mediocre, middling, milk and water, moderately good, not amiss, not bad, not perfect, only better than nothing, ordinary, out of order, out of tune, passable, peccant, pretty good, pretty well, rather good, second best, second-rate, secondary, short-handed, so-so, sprung, tainted, tolerable, under its full complement, under its full strength, unsound, warped, well enough, wonky
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