About The Word Unreliable
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Unreliable
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What's The Definition Of Unreliable?
[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 Synonyms | Synonyms for Unreliable: dangerous | erratic | fallible | irresponsible | temperamental | treacherous | uncertain | undependable | unsafe | unsound Related Terms | Find terms related to Unreliable: See Also | untrustworthy | untrusty Unreliable In Webster's Dictionary \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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