Reliable

Adjective

 * 1) Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependence or reliance; trustworthy
 * A reliable witness to the truth of the miracles. -- Andrews Norton.
 * The best means, and most reliable pledge, of a higher object. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
 * 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. --Washington Irving.
 * 1)  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

Antonyms

 * unreliable

Derived terms

 * reliableness
 * reliably
 * semireliable

Related terms

 * reliability
 * reliance
 * rely

Noun

 * 1) Something or someone reliable
 * the old reliables

Thesaurus
absolute, accurate, adducible, admissible, apposite, attestative, attested, attestive, authentic, authenticated, balanced, based on, believable, calculable, certain, circumstantial, circumstantiated, cogent, colorable, compelling, conceivable, conclusive, confirmed, conscientious, convincing, cool, credible, cumulative, damning, decisive, dependable, determinative, documentary, documented, evidential, evidentiary, ex parte, eye-witness, factual, fail-safe, faithful, faithworthy, fast, fiducial, fiduciary, final, firm, firm as Gibraltar, firsthand, founded on, grounded on, guaranteed, harmless, hearsay, honest, honorable, imperturbable, implicit, in equilibrium, incontrovertible, incorruptible, indicative, indisputable, inerrable, inerrant, infallible, invincible, inviolable, invulnerable, irrefutable, irresistible, material, meaningful, nuncupative, overwhelming, plausible, predictable, presumptive, principled, probative, proven, punctilious, reputable, responsible, riskless, safe, secure, significant, solid, sound, stable, staunch, steadfast, steady, straight, substantial, suggestive, sure, surefire, symptomatic, telling, tenable, tested, to be trusted, tried, tried and true, true, trustable, trusted, trustworthy, trusty, undangerous, unerring, unexceptionable, unfailing, unfalse, unflappable, unflinching, unhazardous, unimpeachable, unperfidious, unperilous, unprecarious, unquestionable, unrisky, unshakable, untreacherous, unwavering, valid, validated, verified, warranteed, weighty, well-balanced, well-founded, well-grounded, without nerves, worthy of faith

Etymology
From Scottish raliabill, itself from to rely + -able

Adjective

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 * Hungarian:, szavahihető
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 * Portuguese: fiável
 * Scottish Gaelic: seasmhach
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 * West Frisian: fertroud


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