[syn: treacherous, unreliable]
4. lacking a sense of responsibility;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Unreliable \Un`re*li"a*ble\, a.
Not reliable; untrustworthy. See Reliable. --
Un`re*li"a*ble*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
Alcibiades . . . was too unsteady, and (according to
Mr. Coleridge's coinage) "unreliable;" or perhaps, in
more correct English, too "unrelyuponable." --De
Quincey.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
unreliable
adj 1: liable to be erroneous or misleading; "an undependable
generalization" [syn: undependable, unreliable]
2: 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]
3: dangerously unstable and unpredictable; "treacherous winding
roads"; "an unreliable trestle" [syn: treacherous,
unreliable]
4: lacking a sense of responsibility
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
134 Moby Thesaurus words for "unreliable":
adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, capricious, changeable,
changeful, coquettish, dangerous, desultory, deviable,
disreputable, dizzy, doubtful, dubious, eccentric, erratic,
faddish, faithless, false, falsehearted, fast and loose, fickle,
fitful, flickering, flighty, flimsy, flirtatious, flitting,
fluctuating, fly-by-night, freakish, garbled, giddy, hazardous,
impetuous, impulsive, inaccurate, inauthentic, inconsistent,
inconstant, indecisive, inexact, infirm, insecure, insubstantial,
irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, light, mazy, mercurial,
miscited, misquoted, misreported, misstated, moody, perfidious,
perilous, precarious, provisional, questionable, quicksilver,
rambling, restless, risky, rocky, roving, scatterbrained, shaky,
shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, skittish, slick, slippery,
spasmodic, spineless, spurious, temporary, tentative, ticklish,
tottery, toying, treacherous, tricky, trustless, unaccountable,
unassured, unauthentic, unauthoritative, uncertain, uncontrolled,
undependable, undisciplined, unfaithful, unfaithworthy, unfixed,
unfounded, unhealthy, unpredictable, unrestrained, unsafe,
unsettled, unsolid, unsound, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid,
unsteadfast, unsteady, unsubstantial, unsure, untrue,
untrustworthy, untrusty, vacillating, vagrant, variable, versatile,
vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton,
wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, weak, whimsical, wishy-washy,
workaday