Hypertext Webster Gateway: "unreliable"
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) 1.7 (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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