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# unreliable

«unreliable» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Not able to be trusted or depended on to work well or do…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (unreliable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Not able to be trusted or depended on to work well or do what is promised. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/unreliable/#m1)

2) (of information) Possibly wrong, so not to be believed without checking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/unreliable/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life: an unreliable car, an unreliable friend. In science and research: unreliable results or sources need checking. In online safety: websites can be unreliable. In stories an «unreliable narrator» is a teller you cannot fully trust.

### examples

- The entire Greek account of Pythagoras and his philosophy is unreliable and most likely is a forgery. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/unreliable/#x1)
- Our old car is unreliable and often won't start. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/unreliable/#x2)
- He is unreliable: he never turns up on time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/unreliable/#x3)
- Some websites are unreliable, so check facts in a good book. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/unreliable/#x4)
- The results were unreliable because we only tested once. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/unreliable/#x5)
- The weather forecast was unreliable that week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/unreliable/#x6)
- The narrator of the story turned out to be unreliable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/unreliable/#x7)

### note

Takes «an». Opposite: reliable, dependable. In science, repeating a test makes results more reliable. «Unreliable» does not always mean lying; it may just mean often wrong.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «unreliable» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/unreliable/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.