reliable
English
Etymology
rely + -able
Pronunciation
- enPR: rĭ-līʹə-bəl, IPA(key): /ɹɪˈlaɪəbəl/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -aɪəbəl
Adjective
reliable (comparative more reliable, superlative most reliable)
- Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependence, reliance or trust; dependable, trustworthy
- 1855, Andrews Norton, Internal Evidences of the Genuineness of the Gospels
- a reliable witness to the truth of the miracles
- February 18, 1800, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Report on Mr. Pitt's Speech in Parliament of February 17, 1800, on the Continuance of the War with France (published in The Morning Post)
- the best means, and the most reliable pledge, of a higher object
- 1855–1859, Washington Irving, The Life of George Washington:
- According to General Livingston's humorous account, his own village of Elizabethtown was not much more reliable, being peopled in those agitated times by unknown, unrecommended strangers, guilty-looking Tories, and very knavish Whigs.
- 1855, Andrews Norton, Internal Evidences of the Genuineness of the Gospels
- (signal processing, of a communication protocol) Such that either a sent packet will reach its destination, even if it requires retransmission, or the sender will be told that it didn't
Synonyms
- secure
- dependable
- trustworthy
- trusty
Antonyms
- unreliable
Derived terms
- reliableness
- reliably
- semireliable
Related terms
- reliability
- reliance
- rely
Translations
fit to be relied on
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See also
Reliability on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Noun
reliable (plural reliables)
- Something or someone reliable or dependable
- the old reliables
Translations
someone to be relied on
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something reliable or dependable
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Anagrams
- Abrielle, Bellaire, lieberal