[ US /ɹiˈɫaɪəbəɫ, ɹɪˈɫaɪəbəɫ/ ]
[ UK /ɹɪlˈa‍ɪəbə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. worthy of reliance or trust
    a dependable worker
    a reliable source of information
    a reliable source of information
    a dependable worker
  2. conforming to fact and therefore worthy of belief
    reliable information
    an authentic account by an eyewitness
  3. worthy of being depended on
    a reliable source of information
    an honest working stiff
    I would be true for there are those who trust me
    a dependable worker
    he was true to his word
    a dependable worker
    a reliable source of information
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How To Use reliable In A Sentence

  • A great deal of effort has gone into making the software reliable.
  • These creatures have the reputation of being smelly, vicious, spiteful and unreliable.
  • But decades of research have gone by and scientists remain incapable of creating a sustainable fusion reaction that could be used to create reliable power.
  • In 1672, when Mars was in the vicinity of the three Psi stars of Aquarius, the time was ripe for obtaining the first reliable parallax of Mars.
  • Make sure that the construction proposal is reliable, the working procedure works canonically, and the construction monitor goes effectively.
  • Reliable statewide estimates of the specific offense distribution of California's probationers are not available.
  • All information contained herein is gathered from sources we believe to be reliable.
  • Mrs May claimed that evidence from the blonde-haired victim, who had had a baby since her ordeal, was unreliable.
  • In his 1982 "Secondary Currents," which is described in the film's title credits as a "film noir," Rose pushes the sound and image concerns of structuralist filmmakers by creating a work that is "imageless": on a black screen, white subtitles translate the gibberish of the unreliable narrator in the voice-over. Baltimore City Paper
  • Never overlook the significance of a power supply - an underpowered system will be prone not only to unreliable operation, but also to component damage.
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