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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unbalanced
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Binary trees can easily become unbalanced.
▪ I became the victim in what was a wholly unbalanced relationship.
▪ Normally the forces from one molecule are counterbalanced by equal attraction by other molecules but at an interface the forces become unbalanced.
▪ Not that this production is in any way unbalanced.
▪ She scrabbled away unbalanced, going too fast to stand up.
▪ The unbalanced responsibilities which they bear as carers continue in middle and later life.
▪ The rising prestige of Ivan's royal office went to the head of that gifted but vicious and unbalanced character.
▪ Tree structures can be balanced or unbalanced.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unbalanced

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.

    Let Earth unbalanced from her orbit fly.
    --Pope.

  2. (Com.) Not adjusted; not settled; not brought to an equality of debt and credit; as, an unbalanced account; unbalanced books.

  3. Being, or being thrown, out of equilibrium; hence, disordered or deranged in sense; unsteady; unsound; as, an unbalanced mind.
    --Pope.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unbalanced

1640s, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of balance (v.). Earliest use is in reference to the mind, judgment, etc. Of material things, it is recorded from 1732.

Wiktionary
unbalanced
  1. 1 not balanced, without equilibrium; dizzy 2 irrational or mentally deranged 3 (context accounting English) not adjusted such that debit and credit correspond 4 (context computing English) of an expression having different numbers of left and right parentheses 5 (context American football English) an offensive line with more players on one side of the center than on the other v

  2. (en-past of: unbalance)

WordNet
unbalanced
  1. adj. 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

Wikipedia
Unbalanced

Unbalanced may refer to:

  • Lacking physiological balance
  • Unbalanced line, where the impedance of the two conductor paths are not equal
  • Unbalanced circuit, a circuit with unbalanced ports, usually with one terminal connected to common
  • An unbalanced formation in American football
  • Unbalanced chemical equations

Usage examples of "unbalanced".

Though usually in such cases the growth is of an unbalanced or localized sort, as in acromegaly, where the bones of the hands or jaw become abnormally enlarged.

The first was not surprising, considering the fact that Imer was in jail with a strong probability of being adjudged mentally unbalanced.

Third, and as a direct result of the second, we had an unbalanced afrit loose, too, causing additional mayhem.

From this, and much other evidence, geologists have deduced that the Altiplano is still gradually rising, but in an unbalanced manner with greater altitudes being attained in the northern part and lesser in the southern.

Unbalanced by the wrenching change as his boot slapped onto a level surface, Arithon flung out his bandaged palm to catch himself short of a fall.

He felt the wooziness that came with the loss of the Force, he saw Laree also unbalanced.

If Latchetts was suddenly and unaccountably his he might be overwhelmed to the point of running away, but not unbalanced to the point of taking his life.

Luc strode away to read Abbie the riot act for showing up at Exotica, for showing up with another man, and for being the cause of his unbalanced emotions.

We guided ones are the prestressed people, and we can never be unbalanced.

These diets are hormonally unbalanced because they contain huge amounts of carbohydrates and little else.

The unbalanced force threw Alfred forward against the largest, standing directly before him, whose hand had darted into his coat.

The second raft pushed up behind the first, and those aboard made to disembark, but an overanxious departure by the first soldiers dangerously unbalanced the craft and the raft tipped, throwing the remaining passengers into the river with a tremendous splash.

Carol, once more looking and sounding unbalanced, had suddenly adopted an incongruous, schoolteacherish refrain and manner.

She quite correctly views the sidesaddle as an inefficient, unbalanced method for riding a horse.

Reasoning that whoever was behind this would almost certainly have to be unbalanced, he instructed the CURE mainframes to limit the search to Russian ultranationalists with known or suspected mental problems.