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Fallible vs Imperfect - What's the difference?

fallible | imperfect |

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.