| Pronunciation: | | `unri'lIubul
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| Matching Terms: | | unreliableness, unreliably
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- [adj] not worthy of reliance or trust; "in the early 1950s computers were large and expensive and unreliable"; "an undependable assistant"
- [adj] liable to be erroneous or misleading; "an undependable generalization"
- [adj] lacking a sense of responsibility
- [adj] dangerously unstable and unpredictable; "treacherous winding roads"; "an unreliable trestle"
- [adj] not to be trusted
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| | Synonyms: | | dangerous, erratic, fallible, irresponsible, temperamental, treacherous, uncertain, undependable, unsafe, unsound |
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| | Antonyms: | | dependable, reliable |
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| | See Also: | | untrustworthy, untrusty |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Un`re*li"a*ble\, a.
Not reliable; untrustworthy. See {Reliable}. --
{Un`re*li"a*ble*ness}, n.
Alcibiades . . . was too unsteady, and (according to
Mr. Coleridge's coinage) ``unreliable;'' or perhaps, in
more correct English, too ``unrelyuponable.'' --De
Quincey.
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