(adj) not worthy of reliance or trust, Syn. undependable, Ant. reliable, dependable, Example:in the early 1950s computers were large and expensive and unreliable; an undependable assistant
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]
[ただよう, tadayou] (v5u, vi) (1) to drift; to float; (2) to waft (e.g. a scent); to hang in the air; (3) to be in the air (e.g. a feeling or mood); (4) to wander; to walk around aimlessly; (5) (arch) to be unsteady; to be unstable; (6) (arch) to falter; to flinch; to wince; (7) (arch) to live in unreliable circumstances; (P)