Definitions of unreliable:

  • adjective:   lacking a sense of responsibility
  • adjective:   not worthy of reliance or trust
    Example: "In the early 1950s computers were large and expensive and unreliable"
  • adjective:   dangerously unstable and unpredictable
    Example: "An unreliable trestle"
  • adjective:   not to be trusted
  • adjective:   liable to be erroneous or misleading