[syn: undependable, unreliable]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
undependable
adj 1: not worthy of reliance or trust; "in the early 1950s
computers were large and expensive and unreliable"; "an
undependable assistant" [syn: unreliable,
undependable] [ant: dependable, reliable]
2: liable to be erroneous or misleading; "an undependable
generalization" [syn: undependable, unreliable]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
109 Moby Thesaurus words for "undependable":
adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, capricious, changeable,
changeful, coquettish, dangerous, desultory, deviable, dizzy,
doubtful, dubious, eccentric, erratic, faddish, fast and loose,
fickle, fitful, flickering, flighty, flirtatious, flitting,
fluctuating, fly-by-night, freakish, giddy, hazardous, impetuous,
impulsive, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, insecure,
insubstantial, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, light, mazy,
mercurial, moody, perilous, precarious, provisional, quicksilver,
rambling, restless, risky, rocky, roving, scatterbrained, shaky,
shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, skittish, slippery,
spasmodic, spineless, temporary, tentative, ticklish, tottery,
toying, treacherous, tricky, trustless, unaccountable, uncertain,
uncontrolled, undisciplined, unfaithworthy, unfixed, unhealthy,
unpredictable, unreliable, unrestrained, unsafe, unsettled,
unsolid, unsound, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid,
unsteadfast, unsteady, unsubstantial, unsure, untrustworthy,
untrusty, vacillating, vagrant, variable, versatile,
vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton,
wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy