Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Not in balance or in proper balance.
  • adjective Not evenly or properly distributed.
  • adjective Showing or marked by erratic or volatile emotions or behavior.
  • adjective Accounting Not satisfactorily adjusted so that debit and credit correspond.
  • adjective Not treating all sides with due importance.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not balanced; not poised.
  • Not brought to an equality of debt and credit: as, an unbalanced account.
  • Unsteady; easily swayed; deranged; unsound.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not balanced; not in equipoise; having no counterpoise, or having insufficient counterpoise.
  • adjective (Com.) Not adjusted; not settled; not brought to an equality of debt and credit.
  • adjective Being, or being thrown, out of equilibrium; hence, disordered or deranged in sense; unsteady; unsound.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective not balanced, without equilibrium; dizzy
  • adjective irrational or mentally deranged
  • adjective accounting not adjusted such that debit and credit correspond
  • adjective computing of an expression having different numbers of left and right parentheses
  • adjective American football an offensive line with more players on one side of the center than on the other
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of unbalance.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective being or thrown out of equilibrium
  • adjective debits and credits are not equal
  • adjective affected with madness or insanity

Etymologies

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un- +‎ balanced

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Examples

  • Hollywood Reporter, critic David Rooney said both he and Falco give "affecting performances " in what he described as an "unbalanced production".

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  • Meanwhile, Victorian Premier John Brumby was miffed with the Indian media and officials for what he called unbalanced reporting on Singh's case.

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  • The only thing "unbalanced" is that we choose to be writers in the first place!

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  • Hindutva, Exploring the idea of Hindu Nationalism Published by: Viking Penguin © Jyotirmaya Sharma, 2003 Science, Culture & Integral Yoga Response by Jyotirmaya Sharma on Mon 21 Aug 2006 12:15 PM PDT Profile Permanent Link Let me tell you a thing or two about what you call my unbalanced treatment of Aurobindo.

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  • Hindutva, Exploring the idea of Hindu Nationalism Published by: Viking Penguin © Jyotirmaya Sharma, 2003 Science, Culture & Integral Yoga Response by Jyotirmaya Sharma on Mon 21 Aug 2006 12:15 PM PDT Profile Permanent Link Let me tell you a thing or two about what you call my unbalanced treatment of Aurobindo.

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  • Harry Reid, who seems to be running out of ways to describe Sharron Angle as mentally unbalanced, is out with a new ad that comes right out and brands her "pathological":

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  • The Dreaming is again unbalanced and we must right it.

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  • The injuries caused by a long-term unbalanced life, the hurt or the destruction to the self-esteem of one's partner or children or career can usually not be reversed. by re-balancing one's life in the future.

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  • This has short-term unbalanced supply and demand, but we are absolutely convinced that fundamentally the marginal cost of the marginal cubic foot of gas, 1,000 cubic feet of gas, is actually well above $4.

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