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Flaky vs Unreliable - What's the difference?

flaky | unreliable |

As adjectives the difference between flaky and unreliable

is that flaky is consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike while unreliable is not reliable.

flaky

English

Alternative forms

* flakey

Adjective

(er)
  • Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.
  • (informal, of a, person) Unreliable; prone to make plans with others but then abandon those plans.
    • Some of his friends were flaky .
  • (informal, of a, thing) Unreliable; working only on an intermittent basis; prone to cease functioning properly.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 16, author=Ben Dirs, title=Rugby World Cup 2011: New Zealand 83-7 Japan, work=BBC Sport citation
    • , passage=Toeava went over unopposed to stretch his side's lead but Japan got on the scoreboard on 56 minutes, wing Hirotoki Onozawa intercepting an attempted offload from Slade, who had a rather flaky game, and running in from the All Blacks' 10m line.}}
    I cannot enjoy the online game because of my flaky Internet connection.

    unreliable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not reliable.

    • Derived terms

    * unreliable narrator