undependable

The word “undependable” has 5 syllables: un-de-pen-da-ble

It's pronounced as /ˌʌn.dɪˈpen.də.bəl/


What is synonym and antonym for undependable?

In the thesaurus, “undependable” has 58 synonyms and 30 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for undependable along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for undependable

  • aimless
  • ambivalent
  • arbitrary
  • bum
  • capricious
  • careless
  • changeable
  • changeful
  • desultory
  • dicey
  • dubious
  • erratic
  • fickle
  • flickery
  • fluctuating
  • fluid
  • fly-by-night
  • haphazard
  • hesitating
  • hit-or-miss
  • inconsistent
  • inconstant
  • indefinite
  • indeterminate
  • irregular
  • loose
  • mercurial
  • mutable
  • no bargain
  • no-good
  • random
  • scattered
  • shaky
  • shilly-shally
  • shilly-shallying
  • skittish
  • slapdash
  • stray
  • temperamental
  • treacherous
  • trick
  • tricky
  • trustless
  • unassured
  • uncertain
  • unpredictable
  • unreliable
  • unsafe
  • unsettled
  • unsound
  • unstable
  • unsteady
  • unsure
  • untrustworthy
  • vacillating
  • variable
  • volatile
  • wavering

Antonyms for undependable

  • abiding
  • certain
  • changeless
  • constant
  • dependable
  • durable
  • equable
  • even
  • immutable
  • invariable
  • lasting
  • permanent
  • persistent
  • predictable
  • reliable
  • responsible
  • settled
  • stable
  • stationary
  • steady
  • sure
  • tried
  • tried-and-true
  • true
  • trustworthy
  • trusty
  • unchangeable
  • unchanging
  • uniform
  • unvarying

Meanings of undependable

  • adjective
    1. Not dependable.

Example Sentences

  • He lost the job because he was seen as undependable and often late.
  • The old car has become too undependable for long road trips.
  • She stopped working with him due to his undependable behavior during important projects.
  • An undependable internet connection made remote work frustrating.
  • It's risky to rely on someone so undependable when deadlines are tight.

On this page you'll find 88 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to undependable, such as: abiding, aimless, ambivalent, arbitrary, bum, capricious, careless.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

waffling

  • alternating
  • ambivalent
  • beating about the bush
  • beating around the bush
  • betwixt and between
  • blowing hot and cold
  • borderline
  • bypassing
  • capricious
  • caviling
  • cavilling
  • changeable
  • changeful
  • changing
  • circumlocutory
  • circumventing
  • clouded
  • confusing statement
  • copious
  • debatable
  • deviating
  • differing
  • diffusive
  • digressive
  • discursive
  • dithering
  • divided
  • dodge
  • dodging
  • doubtful
  • doubting
  • dubious
  • dubitable
  • ducking
  • due
  • dull
  • eluding
  • equivocal
  • equivocal saying
  • equivocating
  • erratic
  • eschewing
  • evading
  • evasion
  • exuberant
  • faltering
  • fearful
  • fickle
  • fitful
  • flexible
  • flickering
  • flip-flopping
  • fluctuating
  • fluid
  • fudging
  • halfhearted
  • halting
  • hedging
  • hemming and hawing
  • hesitant
  • hesitating
  • hot-and-cold
  • iffy
  • immature
  • impartial
  • impulsive
  • in arrears
  • in the middle
  • incomplete
  • inconclusive
  • inconsistent
  • inconstant
  • indecisive
  • indefinite
  • indeterminate
  • intermittent
  • irregular
  • irresolute
  • lavish
  • lengthy
  • long
  • long-winded
  • loose
  • meandering
  • mercurial
  • misleading statement
  • misleading word
  • mobile
  • moot
  • mutable
  • neutral
  • not definite
  • not sure
  • of two minds
  • on the fence
  • on-the-fence
  • open
  • open to question
  • oscillating
  • outstanding
  • overdue
  • owing
  • palaverous
  • payable
  • pendent
  • pending
  • problematic
  • problematical
  • profuse
  • prolix
  • protean
  • pussyfooting
  • quibbling
  • rambling
  • random
  • redundant
  • running hot and cold
  • shaking
  • shifting
  • shifty
  • shirking
  • shunning
  • sidestepping
  • skirting
  • slippery
  • spasmodic
  • spineless
  • straddling
  • straddling the fence
  • suppressio veri
  • temperamental
  • tentative
  • tergiversating
  • ticklish
  • timid
  • torn
  • unanswered
  • uncertain
  • unclear
  • uncommitted
  • unconcluded
  • undecided
  • undependable
  • undetermined
  • unequable
  • uneventful
  • unfinished
  • unfixed
  • unpaid
  • unreliable
  • unresolved
  • unsettled
  • unsolved
  • unstable
  • unsteady
  • unsure
  • up for grabs
  • up in the air
  • vacillating
  • vague
  • variable
  • varying
  • verbose
  • volatile
  • wavering
  • weak
  • weak-kneed
  • weaseling
  • wimpy
  • windy
  • wishy-washy
  • without guts
  • wobbly
  • yellow-bellied
  • yo-yo
  • yo-yoing

faithless

  • apathetic
  • capricious
  • changeable
  • changeful
  • cheating
  • deceitful
  • dishonest
  • disloyal
  • dispassionate
  • double-crossing
  • double-dealing
  • doubting
  • dubious
  • false
  • faltering
  • fickle
  • fluctuating
  • hesitant
  • inconstant
  • irresolute
  • irresponsible
  • perfidious
  • recreant
  • skeptical
  • traitorous
  • treacherous
  • trustless
  • two-faced
  • two-timing
  • unbelieving
  • uncertain
  • unconverted
  • undependable
  • unfaithful
  • uninterested
  • unloyal
  • unreliable
  • unstable
  • untrue
  • untrustworthy
  • untruthful
  • vacillating
  • wavering

unanswerable

variable

  • adaptable
  • adjustable
  • aimless
  • alterable
  • ambivalent
  • arbitrary
  • binary star
  • brown dwarf
  • capricious
  • changeable
  • changeful
  • changing
  • cluster
  • constellation
  • desultory
  • dicey
  • dwarf
  • elastic
  • erratic
  • fickle
  • fitful
  • fixed star
  • flexible
  • flickery
  • fluctuating
  • fluid
  • galaxy
  • gasser
  • giant star
  • haphazard
  • hesitating
  • hit-or-miss
  • iffy
  • inconsistent
  • inconstant
  • irregular
  • labile
  • loadstar
  • lodestar
  • luminary
  • malleable
  • mercurial
  • mobile
  • modifiable
  • mutable
  • neutron star
  • nova
  • pliable
  • protean
  • pulsar
  • quasar
  • random
  • red dwarf
  • red giant
  • red star
  • scattered
  • shaky
  • shifting
  • shifty
  • shilly-shally
  • shilly-shallying
  • skittish
  • slapdash
  • slippery
  • spasmodic
  • sphere
  • stray
  • subdwarf
  • sun
  • supercluster
  • supergiant
  • supernova
  • temperamental
  • ticklish
  • uncertain
  • undependable
  • unequable
  • unpredictable
  • unreliable
  • unsettled
  • unstable
  • unsteady
  • untrustworthy
  • up in the air
  • vacillating
  • variable star
  • varying
  • versatile
  • volatile
  • waffling
  • wavering
  • white dwarf
  • yo-yo

false

  • adulterated
  • affected
  • alloyed
  • ambidextrous
  • ambiguous
  • amiss
  • apathetic
  • apocryphal
  • apostate
  • artful
  • artificial
  • askew
  • assumed
  • automatic
  • awry
  • backhanded
  • base
  • beguiling
  • bent
  • bewildering
  • bogus
  • brummagem
  • bum
  • calculated
  • canned
  • canting
  • casuistic
  • circuitous
  • colored
  • concocted
  • confounding
  • conscious
  • contrary to fact
  • contrived
  • conventional
  • cooked-up
  • copied
  • corrupt
  • counterfactual
  • counterfeit
  • crafty
  • crock
  • crooked
  • cultivated
  • cultured
  • cunning
  • cute
  • cutesy
  • deceitful
  • deceiving
  • deceptive
  • defrauding
  • deliberate
  • deluding
  • delusive
  • delusory
  • designer
  • devious
  • disguised
  • dishonest
  • dishonorable
  • disloyal
  • dispassionate
  • dissembling
  • distorted
  • distracting
  • doctored
  • double-dealing
  • dubious
  • dummy
  • duplicitous
  • empty
  • engineered
  • equivocal
  • erroneous
  • ersatz
  • evasive
  • exaggerated
  • fabricated
  • facile
  • factitious
  • faithless
  • fake
  • fallacious
  • falsehearted
  • faltering
  • fanciful
  • fast
  • faulty
  • faux
  • feigned
  • fickle
  • fictitious
  • fishy
  • forced
  • forged
  • formal
  • forsworn
  • foul
  • foxy
  • framed
  • fraudulent
  • fudged
  • genteel
  • goody-goody
  • guileful
  • hesitant
  • histrionic
  • hokey
  • hollow
  • hypocritical
  • illusive
  • illusory
  • imaginary
  • imitation
  • imitative
  • impersonal
  • improper
  • inaccurate
  • inauthentic
  • inconstant
  • incorrect
  • inexact
  • inflexible
  • insidious
  • insincere
  • invalid
  • invented
  • irresolute
  • irresponsible
  • jive
  • juggled
  • knavish
  • labored
  • left-handed
  • lying
  • made-up
  • make believe
  • malevolent
  • malicious
  • man-made
  • manipulated
  • manufactured
  • mealy
  • mealymouthed
  • mean
  • mechanical
  • melodramatic
  • mendacious
  • meretricious
  • mimic
  • mincing
  • misleading
  • misrepresentative
  • mistaken
  • mock
  • mythomaniac
  • nonfunctioning
  • off
  • off base
  • off the mark
  • ornamental
  • ostensible
  • overacted
  • overdone
  • overrefined
  • pat
  • perfidious
  • perjured
  • perplexing
  • phoney
  • phony
  • pinchbeck
  • plastic
  • premeditated
  • pretend
  • pretended
  • process
  • pseudo
  • put-on
  • puzzling
  • queer
  • rascally
  • recreant
  • renegade
  • rigid
  • scoundrelly
  • seeming
  • shady
  • sham
  • shifty
  • simpering
  • simulated
  • slick
  • sly
  • sneaking
  • sneaky
  • snide
  • so-called
  • sophistical
  • specious
  • spurious
  • stiff
  • strained
  • studied
  • stylized
  • substitute
  • subtile
  • subtle
  • synthetic
  • theatric
  • theatrical
  • traitorous
  • treacherous
  • treasonable
  • trick
  • trickish
  • tricky
  • trumped-up
  • trustless
  • two-faced
  • unauthentic
  • uncertain
  • unconfirmed
  • unctuous
  • undependable
  • underhand
  • underhanded
  • unfaithful
  • unfounded
  • uninterested
  • unnatural
  • unproven
  • unreal
  • unrealistic
  • unreliable
  • unscrupulous
  • unsound
  • untested
  • untrue
  • untrustworthy
  • untruthful
  • vacillating
  • venal
  • villainous
  • wavering
  • wicked
  • wily
  • wooden
  • wrong

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