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Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Meaning of "unreliable" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNRELIABLE

unreliable  [ˌʌnrɪˈlaɪəbəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNRELIABLE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Unreliable is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES UNRELIABLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Reliability

Reliability may refer to: ▪ Human reliability ▪ Reliability engineering, the ability of a system or component to perform its required functions under stated conditions for a specified period of time. ▪ Reliability, of a set of data and experiments ▪ High reliability is informally reported in "nines" ▪ Reliabilism in philosophy and epistemology ▪ Data reliability, a property of some disk arrays in computer storage ▪ Reliability theory, as a theoretical concept, to explain biological aging and species longevity ▪ Reliability, a category used to describe protocols ▪ Reliability, outline of semiconductor device reliability drivers ▪ Reliability, the "consistency" or "repeatability" of research measures.

Definition of unreliable in the English dictionary

The definition of unreliable in the dictionary is not reliable; untrustworthy.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNRELIABLE


alliable
əˈlaɪəbəl
appliable
əˈplaɪəbəl
compliable
kəmˈplaɪəbəl
flyable
ˈflaɪəbəl
identifiable
aɪˌdɛntɪˈfaɪəbəl
justifiable
ˈdʒʌstɪˌfaɪəbəl
liable
ˈlaɪəbəl
multipliable
ˈmʌltɪˌplaɪəbəl
nonliable
ˌnɒnˈlaɪəbəl
pliable
ˈplaɪəbəl
reliable
rɪˈlaɪəbəl
sterilisable
ˈstɛrɪˌlaɪəbəl
sterilizable
ˈstɛrɪˌlaɪəbəl
suppliable
səˈplaɪəbəl
ultrareliable
ˌʌltrərɪˈlaɪəbəl
undeniable
ˌʌndɪˈnaɪəbəl
unflyable
ʌnˈflaɪəbəl
unpliable
ʌnˈplaɪəbəl
verifiable
ˌvɛrɪˈfaɪəbəl
viable
ˈvaɪəbəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNRELIABLE

unrejoiced
unrejoicing
unrelated
unrelative
unrelaxed
unrelenting
unrelentingly
unrelentingness
unrelentor
unreliability
unreliableness
unreliably
unrelievable
unrelieved
unrelievedly
unreligious
unreligiously
unrelished
unreluctant
unremaining

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNRELIABLE

able
amiable
appreciable
dependent variable
depreciable
diable
differentiable
dummy variable
enviable
independent variable
insatiable
invariable
modifiable
multivariable
negotiable
non-negotiable
quantifiable
random variable
sociable
unsociable
variable

Synonyms and antonyms of unreliable in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «UNRELIABLE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «unreliable» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of unreliable

Translation of «unreliable» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNRELIABLE

Find out the translation of unreliable to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of unreliable from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «unreliable» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

不可靠的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

informal
570 millions of speakers

English

unreliable
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अविश्वसनीय
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

لا يـُمْكِنُ الاِعْتِمَادُ عَلَيْه
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ненадежный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

não confiável
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অবিশ্বস্ত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

imprévisible
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak boleh dipercayai
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

unzuverlässig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

あてにならない
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

신뢰할 수 없는
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ora bisa dipercaya
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không đáng tin cậy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நம்பமுடியாத
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अविश्वसनीय
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

güvenilmez
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

inaffidabile
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zawodny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ненадійний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

nesigur
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αναξιόπιστος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onbetroubaar
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

opålitlig
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

upålitelig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of unreliable

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNRELIABLE»

The term «unreliable» is quite widely used and occupies the 24.146 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNRELIABLE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «unreliable» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «unreliable» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about unreliable

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10 QUOTES WITH «UNRELIABLE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word unreliable.
1
Paul Bloom
The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be good arguments against gay marriage, partial-birth abortions and human cloning, but the fact that some people find such acts to be disgusting should carry no weight.
2
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.
3
Leonard Cohen
A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
4
Ray Comfort
Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible trust. Kids should be allowed to make up their own minds about this issue, and not be censored to 'one side is all we will let you hear.'
5
Evan Esar
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
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Lou Ferrigno
Computers can bully us. A slow and unreliable system will bring even the toughest soul to their knees as they find themselves completely defenseless against the erratic whims of their rogue machine.
7
Ari Fleischer
But instead, Democrats are so bent on seeing Republicans as a bunch of angry, right wing, intolerant, unreliable extremists that they have a track record of missing the mood of the country, especially the sentiment of people who don't wake up to 'The New York Times.'
8
James Gleick
In general, I think people should be skeptical of the Internet as a reference tool because so much of what's on it is unreliable and costumed - a hall of mirrors.
9
David Leavitt
The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts.
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Walt Mossberg
There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNRELIABLE»

Discover the use of unreliable in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to unreliable and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Unreliable Memoirs
His adventures are hilarious, his recounting of them even more so, in this – the book that started it all . . . ‘You can’t put it down once started. Its addictive powers stun all normal, decent resistance within seconds.
Clive James, 2009
2
Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media
"Unreliable Sources" dissects news coverage of a wide range of issues-- taxes, the Persian Gulf, social security, abortion, drugs, environmental pollution, U.S.-Soviet relations, terrorism, the Third World-- and exposes the key stories that ...
Martin A. Lee, 1991
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"A great butler": the unreliable narrator in Kazuo ...
In Kazuo Ishiguro ́s The Remains of the Day the first person narrator Stevens, a butler on the verge of retirement, undertakes a journey to meet – for what is likely the last time in their lives – his former coworker and love interest ...
Lynn Bay, 2012
4
Unreliable Sources: How the Twentieth Century Was Reported
Through many decades of groundbreaking journalism, John Simpson has become not only one of the most recognisable and trusted British personalities, but has transferred his skill to books with multiple bestselling success.
John Simpson, 2010
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Unreliable Narration in Poe's 'The Fall of the House of ...
Moreover, in Poe's fiction it is often the case that "the boundaries between reality, illusion and madness remain unresolved" . These are undoubtedly factors that contribute to the terror created in his works.
Kirsten Hinzpeter, 2013
6
Reliable Fundraising in Unreliable Times: What Good Causes ...
Poking fun at money taboos, assuring us that fundraising is not that hard, Kim reminds us that the system is held in place by money: if we don't learn about it, we can't change it!" —Penny Rosenwasser, National Board, Jewish Voice for ...
Kim Klein, 2009
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Unreliable Witnesses: Religion, Gender, and History in the ...
In her latest book, Ross Shepard Kraemer shows how her mind has changed or remained the same since the publication of her ground-breaking study, Her Share of the Blessings: Women's Religions Among Pagans, Jews and Christians in the Greco ...
Ross Shepard Kraemer, 2010
8
Always Unreliable: Memoirs
The rest, of course, is history . . . ‘You had better not read the book on a train, unless you are unselfconscious about shrieking and snorting in public . . .
Clive James, 2012
9
Oil's Endless Bid: Taming the Unreliable Price of Oil to ...
Reveals why oil prices cannot stabilize without dramatic action on the part of both government and business Details how the novel, but wrong, idea of oil as an asset class took a sleepy, club-like market into the national spotlight ...
Dan Dicker, 2011
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Narrative Unreliability in the Twentieth-Century ...
This volume deals with the occurrence and development of unreliable first-person narration in twentieth century Western literature.
Elke D'hoker, Gunther Martens, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNRELIABLE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term unreliable is used in the context of the following news items.
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'Mistresses' Season 3 Spoilers: Episode 9 Synopsis Released; What …
Meanwhile, Marc (Rob Mayes) will face his own demons in “Unreliable Source” after indulging in one too many drinks. The bartender was feeling a bit glum in ... «International Business Times, Jul 15»
2
Macs owner branded 'unreliable' in report
PRESTON bar owner Andy Mac has been branded 'unreliable' and untruthful in a damming report into the reasons why Macs bar was shut down. Macs owner ... «Lancashire Evening Post, Jul 15»
3
Sam Worthington claims video of him hitting paparazzo is 'unreliable
“Avatar” star Sam Worthington doesn't want a jury to see a video of him clocking a paparazzo in 2014. In new filings in Manhattan Federal Court, an attorney for ... «New York Daily News, Jul 15»
4
Mr. Big tactic — and confession — unreliable, lawyer says
A judge's decision to acquit a man of second-degree murder in the death of a toddler highlights the unreliability of confessions obtained through so-called Mr. «Times Colonist, Jun 15»
5
Confession in toddler's death unreliable: Judge
Power found that Streiling's confession to an undercover officer was "too unreliable to accept as a true admission of guilt." Streiling told an officer who he thought ... «Toronto Sun, Jun 15»
6
Tap Into Unreliable Narrator, A Reimagined Ale From Threes Brewing
Firmly entrenched in the former category is Unreliable Narrator, their obligatory India Pale Ale. Despite its name, the beer is consistently dependable, and has ... «Village Voice, Jun 15»
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GPS 'Unreliable Event' Scheduled for Friday at Holloman AFB
The 746th Test Squadron will perform a Global Positioning System unreliable event, scheduled at Holloman Air Force Base, June 5, 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. A ... «GPS World magazine, Jun 15»
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Top businesswoman found to be unreliable witness
A judge has found a prominent businesswoman to be an unreliable witness and ordered her to pay $25,000 for a champion horse she tried to claim she never ... «Stuff.co.nz, May 15»
9
Investigation: Ohio background check system unreliable
COLUMBUS —Ohio's computerized background check system has been flawed and unreliable for years, often failing to provide accurate information about ... «WLWT Cincinnati, Apr 15»
10
Just How Unreliable Is the US Electricity Grid?
In fact, the U.S. power grid is surprisingly unreliable at the best of times, especially when compared to those of other developed countries. As you can see in the ... «The Market Oracle, Apr 15»

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