reliablea. Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependance or reliance; trustworthy.(A. Norton.)The best means, and most reliable pledge, of a higher object. (Coleridge.)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. (W. Irving.)()()