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unbalanced
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective unbalanced has 3 senses
- unbalanced(a = adj.all) imbalanced - being or thrown out of equilibrium; Array Antonym: balanced
- unbalanced(s = adj.all) brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unhinged - affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad"
- unbalanced(s = adj.all) Array - debits and credits are not equal; Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
unbalanced, a. [In senses 1 and 2, pref. un- not + balanced; in sense 3, 1st pref. un- + balance.].
- Not balanced; not in equipoise; having no counterpoise, or having insufficient counterpoise. [1913 Webster]"Let Earth unbalanced from her orbit fly." [1913 Webster]
- Not adjusted; not settled; not brought to an equality of debt and credit; as, an unbalanced account; unbalanced books. [1913 Webster]
- Being, or being thrown, out of equilibrium; hence, disordered or deranged in sense; unsteady; unsound; as, an unbalanced mind. Pope. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
unbalanced
abnormal, asymmetric, asymmetrical, batty, bereft of reason, bonkers, brainsick, canted, certifiable, crackbrained, cracked, crazed, crazy, daffy, daft, deluded, demented, deprived of reason, deranged, disoriented, disproportionate, distraught, disturbed, dizzy, eccentric, flighty, hallucinated, heeling, ill-balanced, illegal, inequitable, iniquitous, insane, irrational, irregular, leaning, listing, loco, lopsided, lunatic, mad, maddened, manic, mazed, mental, mentally deficient, meshuggah, moon-struck, non compos, non compos mentis, nonsymmetrical, not all there, not right, nuts, odd, of unsound mind, off, off-balance, off-center, overbalanced, psycho, queer, reasonless, senseless, shaky, sick, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange, tetched, top-heavy, touched, uncentered, undeserved, undue, unequal, unequitable, uneven, unhinged, unjust, unlawful, unmeet, unmerited, unrightful, unsane, unsettled, unsound, unstable, unsteady, unsymmetrical, wacky, wandering, witless, wobbly, wrong, wrongfulROGET THESAURUS
unbalanced
Inequality
N inequality, disparity, imparity, odds, difference, unevenness, inclination of the balance, partiality, bias, weight, shortcoming, casting weight, make-weight, superiority, inferiority, inequation, unequal, uneven, disparate, partial, unbalanced, overbalanced, top-heavy, lopsided, biased, skewed, disquiparant, haud passibus aequis.
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