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un·re·li·able

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. undependable, unreliableadjective

    liable to be erroneous or misleading

    "an undependable generalization"

  2. unreliable, undependableadjective

    not worthy of reliance or trust

    "in the early 1950s computers were large and expensive and unreliable"; "an undependable assistant"

  3. treacherous, unreliableadjective

    dangerously unstable and unpredictable

    "treacherous winding roads"; "an unreliable trestle"

  4. unreliableadjective

    lacking a sense of responsibility

Wiktionary

  1. unreliableadjective

    Not reliable.

ChatGPT

  1. unreliable

    Unreliable refers to someone or something that cannot be trusted or depended upon consistently. It implies inconsistency, unpredictability, or a lack of dependability or stability. Unreliable can pertain to people, information, machinery, or systems, among other things.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Unreliableadjective

    not reliable; untrustworthy. See Reliable

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Unreliable

    un-rē-lī′a-bl, adj. that cannot be relied upon, untrustworthy.—ns. Unreliabil′ity, Unrelī′ableness.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of unreliable in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of unreliable in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of unreliable in a Sentence

  1. Councilman Mark Levine:

    We are receiving about 100,000 doses every week in a city where 2.5 million people are eligible, and even that low number has been unstable and unreliable, we are so far behind the pace we need to be vaccinating at.

  2. Bongkiyung Emmanuel Nyuyki:

    The main agricultural products – maize, groundnuts, millet, sorghum and rice – suffer enormously due to their high dependence on rainfall. The June 15 deadline for (starting) farming has been unreliable with early as well as late onset of the planting season year in and year out.

  3. Janusz Korczak:

    Whatever has been achieved through pressure and violence is unstable, unreliable and incorrect.

  4. David Lobina:

    Systems such as ChatGPT can be rather unreliable, making up stuff as they go and giving different answers to the same questions – not to mention the sexist and racist biases.

  5. Paul Theroux:

    Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.

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