Crossword clues for unbalanced
unbalanced
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unbalanced \Un*bal"anced\, a. [In senses 1 and 2, pref. un- not + balanced; in sense 3, 1st pref. un- + balance.]
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Not balanced; not in equipoise; having no counterpoise, or having insufficient counterpoise.
Let Earth unbalanced from her orbit fly.
--Pope. (Com.) Not adjusted; not settled; not brought to an equality of debt and credit; as, an unbalanced account; unbalanced books.
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
Wiktionary
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
(en-past of: unbalance)
WordNet
adj. being or thrown out of equilibrium [syn: imbalanced] [ant: balanced]
affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad" [syn: brainsick, crazy, demented, distracted, disturbed, mad, sick, unhinged]
debits and credits are not equal
Wikipedia
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.