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comparative more reliable, superlative most reliable
Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependence, reliance or trust; dependable, trustworthy quotations examples
a reliable witness to the truth of the miracles
1855, Andrews Norton, Internal Evidences of the Genuineness of the Gospels
the best means, and the most reliable pledge, of a higher object
February 18, 1800, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Report on Mr. Pitt's Speech in Parliament of February 17, 1800, on the Continuance of the War with France (published in The Morning Post)
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.
1855–1859, Washington Irving, The Life of George Washington
(signal processing, of a communication protocol) Such that either a sent packet will reach its destination, even if it requires retransmission, or the sender will be told that it didn't examples
plural reliables
Something or someone reliable or dependable examples