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Unreliably

Definition: Unreliably

Unreliably

Adverb

1. In an unfaithful undependable unreliable manner.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Unreliably

Synonyms: undependably (adv), unfaithfully (adv). (additional references)
Antonym: faithfully (adv). (additional references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Unreliably

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

We dropped all physical signs as inclusion criteria because all of us agreed that their presence had been unreliably documented in past studies. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Unreliably

"Unreliably" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unreliably" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unreliably

Language Translations for "unreliably"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

不可 地. (various references)

   

French

  

sujette caution (unsoundly, untrusty). (various references)

   

German

  

unzuverlässige (unsoundly, untrusty). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

뢰 수 없. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eliablyunray

   

Russian 

  

ненадежно (precariously, troublesomely). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Unreliably

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-i-l-l-n-r-u-y"

-2 letters: blearily, linearly, neurally, reliably, ruinable, unreally, urbanely.

-3 letters: alienly, bairnly, bilayer, blarney, braille, brulyie, bullier, burlily, byliner, inlayer, liberal, linable, nebular, ralline, rubella, rulable.

-4 letters: aerily, alible, aliner, allure, bailer, bailey, baller, barely, barley, berlin, biller, binary, bleary, bluely, brainy, bullae, burial, burley, burnie, byline, byrnie, labile, lanely, larine, laurel, leanly, liable, librae.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-i-l-l-n-r-u-y"
 

+2 letters: invulnerably.

 

+3 letters: unreliability, vulnerability.

 

+4 letters: unalterability.

 

+5 letters: invulnerability, neurofibrillary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Unreliably


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 6E 72 65 6C 69 61 62 6C 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-    -.    .-.    .    .-..    ..    .-    -...    .-..    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101110 01110010 01100101 01101100 01101001 01100001 01100010 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#114 &#101 &#108 &#105 &#97 &#98 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0072 0065 006C 0069 0061 0062 006C 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

55808471787567687891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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