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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

Dictionary Results for unreliable:

1. WordNet® 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

2. 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]

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