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Unreliable

Unreliable Meaning & Definition
Unreliable Definition And Meaning

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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