dependable

Able, or easily able to be depended on.

Adjective

  1. Able, or easily able to be depended on.
    • He was a very dependable person.

Origin

Etymology tree English depend Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English dependable From depend + -able.

Forms

more dependable most dependable

Synonyms

stalwart

Derived

dependableness dependably undependable

Noun

  1. A reliable person or thing.
    • But Datsyuk’s return rejuvenated the old dependables like Rafalski, Lidstrom and Marian Hossa, who consistently outshone Malkin and Crosby. - 2009 June 7, Jeff Z. Klein, “At Full Strength, Red Wings Dominate”, in New...

Forms

dependables