Unbalanced

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Unbalanced \Un*bal"anced\, a. [In senses 1 and 2, pref. un- not
     + balanced; in sense 3, 1st pref. un- + balance.]
     1. Not balanced; not in equipoise; having no counterpoise, or
        having insufficient counterpoise.
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              Let Earth unbalanced from her orbit fly. --Pope.
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     2. (Com.) Not adjusted; not settled; not brought to an
        equality of debt and credit; as, an unbalanced account;
        unbalanced books.
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     3. Being, or being thrown, out of equilibrium; hence,
        disordered or deranged in sense; unsteady; unsound; as, an
        unbalanced mind. --Pope.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  unbalanced
       adj 1: being or thrown out of equilibrium [syn: {imbalanced}] [ant:
               {balanced}]
       2: affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad"
          [syn: {brainsick}, {crazy}, {demented}, {distracted}, {disturbed},
           {mad}, {sick}, {unhinged}]
       3: debits and credits are not equal

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  96 Moby Thesaurus words for "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,
     wrongful