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What is "well-balanced"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
well-balanced
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
diet
▪ A healthy well-balanced diet containing proper nutrition can be used to help cope with stress.
▪ But a little beef now and then can easily fit in a well-balanced diet.
▪ However, a well-balanced diet is always required.
▪ Protect your teeth and gums by eating a well-balanced diet and visiting your dentist regularly.
▪ Many of us still incorrectly believe that a well-balanced diet should include only small amounts of bread because it is fattening.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Come now Gibson, a little more of your usual well-balanced perspective please!
▪ Hampshire have on paper a well-balanced side; they should be title-chasing.
▪ However, a well-balanced diet is always required.
▪ It is well-balanced and full-nosed yet with a cleanness to tickle the most fastidious palate.
▪ Protect your teeth and gums by eating a well-balanced diet and visiting your dentist regularly.
▪ Sanguine: this type has a well-balanced, strong temperament, and is usually lively.
▪ Then maybe little Aristos could be a well-balanced personality.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
well-balanced

balanced \bal"anced\ adj. being in a state of proper balance or equilibrium; -- opposite of unbalanced. the carefully balanced seesaw a properly balanced symphony orchestra a balanced assessment of intellectual and cultural history a balanced blend of whiskeys the educated man shows a balanced development of all his powers [Narrower terms: counterbalanced, counter-balanced, counterpoised; well-balanced; poised]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
well-balanced

1620s, from well (adv.) + past participle of balance (v.).

Wiktionary
well-balanced

a. 1 properly balanced; in equilibrium 2 mentally stable and free from psychological disorder

WordNet
well-balanced

  1. adj. in an optimal state of balance or equilibrium; "a well-balanced wheel"

  2. free from psychological disorder; "a well-adjusted personality" [syn: well-adjusted]

Usage examples of "well-balanced".

That behaviour, which is usually the result of a good education and a long experience of society, was in the lovely peasant-girl due only to a candid and well-balanced mind which shone all the more because it was all nature and not art.

While cautioning herself not to become smug, Celia reflected with relief that it was possible to be a working mother and still have successful, well-balanced children.

She ate a healthy, well-balanced diet, and didn't think about food all that much.