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Grammar : Adj
Spell : uhn-bal-uhnst
Phonetic Transcription : ʌnˈbæl ənst



Definition of unbalanced

Origin :
  • 1640s, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of balance. Earliest use is in reference to the mind, judgment, etc. Of material things, it is recorded from 1732.
  • adj not even, stable
  • adj crazy; mentally disturbed
Example sentences :
  • I thought only of myself, and I behaved like a whining, unbalanced boy.
  • Extract from : « The Gentleman From Indiana » by Booth Tarkington
  • You may say that Robespierre was morbid and unbalanced, and you may say the same of Bunyan.
  • Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
  • Had the strain of the past few weeks unbalanced the professors mind?
  • Extract from : « Spawn of the Comet » by Harold Thompson Rich
  • Unbalanced by the shove, he stumbled over the Apache whom he had knocked senseless.
  • Extract from : « Bloom of Cactus » by Robert Ames Bennet
  • It lifted Uncle Jabez from his seat, and unbalanced the boat.
  • Extract from : « Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies » by Alice B. Emerson
  • Like all radicals and reformers they had a fringe of unbalanced and crotchety folk.
  • Extract from : « The Negro and the Nation » by George S. Merriam
  • It caught him in mid-stride, and unbalanced, he crashed heavily to the floor.
  • Extract from : « Faithfully Yours » by Lou Tabakow
  • Temptation, never far from youth, is always near the unbalanced.
  • Extract from : « William Shakespeare » by John Masefield
  • Was it only a chimera of my unbalanced imagination—or was it actual fact?
  • Extract from : « The Stretton Street Affair » by William Le Queux
  • How many innovators have been regarded as insane, or as at least unbalanced, visionary!
  • Extract from : « Essay on the Creative Imagination » by Th. Ribot

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