Unbalanced
[ʌn'bælənst] or [,ʌn'bælənst]
Definition
(adj.) debits and credits are not equal .
(adj.) being or thrown out of equilibrium .
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Definition
(a.) Not balanced; not in equipoise; having no counterpoise, or having insufficient counterpoise.
(a.) Not adjusted; not settled; not brought to an equality of debt and credit; as, an unbalanced account; unbalanced books.
(a.) Being, or being thrown, out of equilibrium; hence, disordered or deranged in sense; unsteady; unsound; as, an unbalanced mind.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Not poised, not balanced.[2]. Unadjusted (as accounts), unsettled.
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Definition
adj. not in a state of equipoise: without mental balance unsteady: (book-k.) not adjusted so as to show debtor and creditor balance.—n. Unbal′ance want of balance derangement.—v.t. to throw out of balance.
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Examples
- Lack of the free and equitable intercourse which springs from a variety of shared interests makes intellectual stimulation unbalanced. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Was there anything in your letter which might have unbalanced him or induced him to take such a step? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- When, however, the pressure within the tube is reduced, the liquid rises because of the unbalanced pressure which acts on the water in the cistern. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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