different between reasonable vs reliable

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French resnable, from Late Latin rationabilis, from Latin ratio; more at reason, -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?.z?n.?.b?l/, /??i?z.n?.b?l/
• Hyphenation: rea?son?able

Adjective

reasonable (comparative more reasonable, superlative most reasonable)

1. (now rare) Having the faculty of reason; rational, reasoning.
   • 1634, William Wood, New Englands Prospect, I:

     The wi?dome and under?tanding of this Bea?t, will almo?t conclude him a rea?onable creature […].

2. Just; fair; agreeable to reason.
3. Not excessive or immoderate; within due limits; proper.

   a reasonable demand, amount, or price

4. Not expensive; fairly priced.

   $20 a bottle is very reasonable for a good wine at a restaurant.

   Say, would you happen to know a good place for lunch in the downtown area? ... The Radisson ... Oh yah? ... Is it reasonable? - Marge Gunderson in Fargo (1996)

5. Satisfactory.

   The builders did a reasonable job, given the short notice.

Synonyms

• reasonous

Antonyms

• arbitrary
• unreasonable

Derived terms

• reasonably
• reasonability
• reasonableness

Translations

English

Etymology

From Scottish raliabill, itself from to rely + -able

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?-l???-b?l, IPA^(key): /???la??b?l/
• Rhymes: -a??b?l

Adjective

reliable (comparative more reliable, superlative most reliable)

1. Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependence, reliance or trust; dependable, trustworthy
   • 1855, Andrews Norton, Internal Evidences of the Genuineness of the Gospels

     a reliable witness to the truth of the miracles

   • 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)

     the best means, and the most reliable pledge, of a higher object

   • 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.

2. (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

Synonyms

• secure
• dependable
• trustworthy
• trusty

Antonyms

• unreliable

Derived terms

• reliableness
• reliably
• semireliable

Related terms

• reliability
• reliance
• rely

Translations

See also

• Reliability on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Noun

reliable (plural reliables)

1. Something or someone reliable or dependable

   the old reliables

Translations

Anagrams

• Abrielle, Bellaire, lieberal