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unreliable |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Unreliable \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: unreliable adj 1: liable to be erroneous or misleading; "an undependable generalization" [syn: {undependable}] 2: not to be trusted [syn: {undependable}] 3: not worthy of reliance or trust; "in the early 1950s computers were large and expensive and unreliable"; "an undependable assistant" [syn: {undependable}] [ant: {reliable}, {reliable}] 4: dangerously unstable and unpredictable; "treacherous winding roads"; "an unreliable trestle" [syn: {treacherous}] 5: lacking a sense of responsibility
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