unbalanced
mentally disordered; deranged.
(of an account) not adjusted; not brought to an equality of debits and credits.
Football. of or relating to an offensive line formation having more than three linemen on one side of the center.: Compare balanced (def. 5).
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The idea was to increase air pressure behind the bottom of the ball in order to create an unbalanced force that would promote backspin.
Nerf’s newest blaster shoots spinning balls for dramatic curves | Stan Horaczek | January 27, 2021 | Popular-ScienceOmitting it can result in an unbalanced, lean and acidic brew.
Making champagne with little to no added sugar is tricky. A respected producer is doing it right. | Dave McIntyre | December 18, 2020 | Washington PostIn the case of longer feature assignments, we were even more unbalanced—assigning 63% to male writers and just 37% to women.
The corporate world needs to do better on diversity—and so does Fortune | cleaf2013 | December 3, 2020 | FortuneIn recent months, it’s been tough to remember that problems predating the recession and the pandemic existed, but the power of the duopoly and marketers’ unbalanced reliance on it has long been an issue.
‘Too beholden’: Why the TikTok ban has marketers griping about their reliance on Facebook and Google | Kristina Monllos | August 17, 2020 | DigidayThese companies—and all others developing blockchain technology—should be able to operate on a fair and equal playing field, without giving any group or organization an upper hand thanks to unbalanced regulations.
Overstock CEO: How blockchain can help pull us out of the coronavirus recession | jakemeth | July 7, 2020 | Fortune
You consume a nutritionally unbalanced diet because of concerns about “food purity.”
Orthorexia: When Healthy Eating Becomes an Obsession | DailyBurn | October 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn Rwanda, an unbalanced ratio leaves 83 of every 100 citizens dependent on the leftover 17 for survival.
After the Genocide, Rwanda’s Widows Aging Alone | Nina Strochlic | August 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut he neither liked nor trusted Governor La Follette, whom he regarded as unbalanced and dangerous to the Republican Party.
The GOP’s Last Identity Crisis Remade U.S. Politics | Michael Wolraich | July 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBob Smith: unbalanced, inconstant, and even more of a carpetbagger than the other guy.
Sen. Bob Smith: The Thing That Wouldn’t Leave | Michelle Cottle | December 4, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe helmet weighs about 12 pounds, and sits slightly unbalanced unlike the Kevlar I wore as a Marine.
The Marine and His Cousin the Firefighter | Maurice Emerson Decaul | September 11, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIt sometimes entered Mr. Pontellier's mind to wonder if his wife were not growing a little unbalanced mentally.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinA terrible suspicion came to him that her mind was wandering, that the shock she had received had unbalanced her reason.
The Courier of the Ozarks | Byron A. DunnIn New Zealand there are a number of communities which have grown quickly and have become unbalanced.
Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents | Oswald Chettle Mazengarb et al.The mental faculties are much more completely unbalanced, and the prognosis of the case is more unfavourable.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin MalleyFor the first time it occurred to him that she might be unbalanced.
The Opened Shutters | Clara Louise Burnham
British Dictionary definitions for unbalanced
/ (ʌnˈbælənst) /
lacking balance
irrational or unsound; erratic
mentally disordered or deranged
biased; one-sided: unbalanced reporting
(in double-entry book-keeping) not having total debit balances equal to total credit balances
electronics (of signals or circuitry) not symmetrically disposed about earth or zero reference potential
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