Reliable

a.

1.

Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependance or reliance; trustworthy. The best means, and most reliable pledge, of a higher object. - 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." - W. Irving.

Adj.	1.	reliable - worthy of reliance or trust; "a reliable source of information"; "a dependable worker" Synonyms: dependable Antonyms: undependable, unreliable - not worthy of reliance or trust; "in the early 1950s computers were large and expensive and unreliable"; "an undependable assistant"
	2.	reliable - conforming to fact and therefore worthy of belief; "an authentic account by an eyewitness"; "reliable information" Synonyms: authentic
	3.	reliable - worthy of being depended on; "a dependable worker"; "an honest working stiff"; "a reliable source of information"; "he was true to his word"; "I would be true for there are those who trust me" Synonyms: dependable, honest, true

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