unreliable — I adjective capricious, changeful, deceitful, faithless, fallible, false, fickle, inconstant, insecure, irresponsible, perfidious, precarious, shifty, tergiversating, treacherous, two faced, undependable, unpredictable, unsound, unstable,… … Law dictionary
Unreliable — Un re*li a*ble, a. Not reliable; untrustworthy. See {Reliable}. {Un re*li a*ble*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] Alcibiades . . . was too unsteady, and (according to Mr. Coleridge s coinage) unreliable; or perhaps, in more correct English, too… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
unreliable — (adj.) 1840, from UN (Cf. un ) (1) not + RELIABLE (Cf. reliable). First recorded in De Quincey, who said it was coined by Coleridge … Etymology dictionary
unreliable — [adj] not trustworthy, not true capricious, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, disreputable, dubious, erroneous, fake, fallible, false, fickle, fly by night*, furtive, hallucinatory, hollow, implausible, inaccurate, inconstant, irresponsible,… … New thesaurus
unreliable — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ not able to be relied upon. DERIVATIVES unreliability noun unreliably adverb … English terms dictionary
unreliable — [spelling only] … English World dictionary
unreliable — un|re|li|a|ble [ ,ʌnrı laıəbl ] adjective * 1. ) someone who is unreliable will not do what you ask them to do, or will not do it well: Don t ask Jan she s too unreliable. a ) used about things such as equipment or methods that will not work… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
unreliable — [[t]ʌ̱nrɪla͟ɪ͟əb(ə)l[/t]] ADJ GRADED If you describe a person, machine, or method as unreliable, you mean that you cannot trust them. Diplomats can be a notoriously unreliable and misleading source of information... His judgement was unreliable … English dictionary
unreliable — un|re|li|a|ble [ˌʌnrıˈlaıəbəl] adj unable to be trusted or depended on ▪ The car s becoming very unreliable. ▪ an unreliable witness … Dictionary of contemporary English
unreliable — adjective unable to be trusted or depended on: The car s becoming very unreliable. | unreliable witness (=someone who may not tell the truth in a court) opposite reliable … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
