Unsecured vs Unstable - What's the difference?
unsecured | unstable |
Not secured; not fastened; not attached.
Of a loan or guarantee, without collateral.
Having a strong tendency to change.
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Fickle.
Unpredictable.
(chemistry) Readily decomposable.
(physics) Radioactive, especially with a short half-life.
As adjectives the difference between unsecured and unstable
is that unsecured is not secured; not fastened; not attached while unstable is having a strong tendency to change.unsecured
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(en adjective)Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.