Qualities

Synonyms for unreliable

One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.

Tier 4, High Camp · 1 sense · adjective · Reason line included

The senseadjectiveTier 4, High CampQualities

not worthy of reliance or trust

In the early 1950s computers were large and expensive and unreliable.

The sentence the app shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

undependable

Same sentence, swapped: In the early 1950s computers were large and expensive and undependable.

Close but different

These are the other three tiles the game puts on screen for this sense. Each one is a real word with a real meaning, and none of them is a synonym for unreliable as it is used in the sentence above.

dependable
questionable
untrue

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