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- Dictionaryun·re·li·a·ble/ˌənrəˈlīəb(ə)l/
adjective
- 1. not able to be relied upon: "he's lazy and unreliable" Similar Opposite
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not able to be trusted or believed: The bus service is unreliable. unreliable evidence. Opposite. reliable. Fewer examples. Several unreliable dealers have been struck off our list of authorized suppliers. "He's so unreliable!" she said crossly. Managers had complained that the workers were lazy and unreliable.
not able to be trusted or believed: The bus service is unreliable. unreliable evidence. Opposite. reliable. Fewer examples. Several unreliable dealers have been struck off our list of authorized suppliers. "He's so unreliable!" she said crossly. Managers had complained that the workers were lazy and unreliable.
The meaning of UNRELIABLE is not reliable : undependable, untrustworthy. How to use unreliable in a sentence.
Unreliable definition: not reliable; not to be relied or depended on.. See examples of UNRELIABLE used in a sentence.
the quality of not being able to be trusted or believed: unreliability of It is difficult to reconstruct exactly what happened because of the unreliability of witnesses. He was starting to lose patience with her unreliability. Compare. Fewer examples. Behind the scenes, he was earning a reputation for unreliability.
If you describe a person, machine, or method as unreliable, you mean that you cannot trust them to do or provide what you want.
Definition of unreliable adjective in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Someone unreliable can't be trusted to do something. Things can be unreliable too, like a bike with a wobbly wheel. The word "rely" is a clue to what unreliable means. When you can rely on something, you can count in it — it's reliable.
unreliable - not worthy of reliance or trust; "in the early 1950s computers were large and expensive and unreliable"; "an undependable assistant"
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English unreliable un‧re‧li‧a‧ble / ˌʌnrɪˈlaɪəb ə l / AWL adjective DEPEND/IT DEPENDS unable to be trusted or depended on The car’s becoming very unreliable. an unreliable witness Examples from the Corpus unreliable • Local telephone service is unreliable.
