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Adjective: unreliable  `únri'lIubul
  1. Liable to be erroneous or misleading
    - undependable
     
  2. Not worthy of reliance or trust
    "in the early 1950s computers were large and expensive and unreliable"
    - undependable
     
  3. Dangerously unstable and unpredictable
    "an unreliable trestle"
    - treacherous
     
  4. Lacking a sense of responsibility

See also: dangerous, erratic, fallible, irresponsible, temperamental, uncertain, unreliableness, unreliably, unsafe, unsound, untrustworthy, untrusty

Antonym: reliable

Encyclopedia: Unreliable