As adjectives the difference between fallible and imperfect
is that
fallible is capable of making mistakes or being wrong while
imperfect is not perfect.
As a noun imperfect is
something having a minor flaw.
fallible English
Adjective
( en adjective)
Capable of making mistakes or being wrong.
Related terms
* fail
* fallacious
* fallacy
* fallibilist
* fallibilism
* fallibility
Synonyms
* faultful
* imperfect
Antonyms
* faultless
* infallible
* perfect
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imperfect English
Adjective
( en adjective)
Not perfect.
* Shakespeare
- Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect .
* Milton
- Nothing imperfect or deficient left / Of all that he created.
* Alexander Pope
- Then say not man's imperfect , Heaven in fault; / Say rather, man's as perfect as he ought.
(botany) unisexual: having either male (with stamens) or female (with pistil) flowers, but not with both.
(taxonomy) Known or expected to be polyphyletic, as of a form taxon.
(obsolete) Lacking some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity.
* Jeremy Taylor
- He stammered like a child, or an amazed, imperfect person.
Related terms
* imperfection
Synonyms
* (not perfect) defective, fallible, faultful
Antonyms
* (not perfect) perfect, infallible, faultless
* (unisexual) perfect
Noun
( en noun)
Something having a minor flaw
(grammar) A tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous.
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