different between reliable vs edifying

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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??d?fa???/

Adjective

edifying (comparative more edifying, superlative most edifying)

1. That educates, informs, illuminates or instructs.
2. That enlightens or uplifts.

Verb

edifying

1. present participle of edify

Noun

edifying (plural edifyings)

1. edification
   • 2002, E. Beatrice Batson, Selected comedies and late romances of Shakespeare from a Christian perspective

     I am slightly skeptical about the neatness of these edifyings in the play. Olivia remains my best positive case, Malvolio my best negative. "Too proud," as Viola says, Olivia is humbled by both Feste and Viola, her twin fools, but more obviously and more frequently by herself, until finally she is blessed with the joy of undeserved grace and love. Malvolio will not learn that his madness is everyone's madness in Illyria.

Anagrams

• deifying