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Definition: Unbalanced |
UnbalancedAdjective1. Being or thrown out of equilibrium. 2. Affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad". 3. (accounting) debits and credits are not equal. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unbalanced" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
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Food & Agriculture | Term applied to a wine in which the various components are not in harmonious proportions. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: UnbalancedSynonyms: brainsick (adj), crazy (adj), demented (adj), distracted (adj), disturbed (adj), imbalanced (adj), mad (adj), sick (adj), unhinged (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: balanced (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inequality | Adjective: unequal, uneven, disparate, partial; unbalanced, overbalanced; top-heavy, lopsided, biased, skewed; disquiparant. |
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Crosswords: Unbalanced |
| English words defined with "unbalanced": asylum ♦ charge ♦ dyscrasia ♦ electric charge ♦ insane asylum, institution ♦ malnutrition, mental home, mental hospital, mental institution ♦ psychiatric hospital ♦ unbalance, unevenness. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unbalanced": ALIGNER, TYPEWRITER ♦ balanced-to-unbalanced transformer, balun, balun transformer, bringing into state of equilibrium ♦ Cache On A STick ♦ defects of wines ♦ Knapp bottom pressure gage ♦ maximum Maytag mode ♦ Paraproteinemias, pick lacing ♦ RS-232C ♦ unbalanced cutter chain ♦ V.28, vibrating screen. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Unbalanced Chemicals (1996) | |
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 | Child of agricultural day laborer living near Tullahassee, Oklahoma. Notice the distended stomach, which is indicative of malnutrution and unbalanced diet with too many starchy foods. This condition is prevalent throughout the tenant farmer and day labori. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Unbalanced diet, new rehabilitation family. Coffee County, Alabama. Beans and biscuits. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Crazy; laugh; insane; insanity; bonkers; cracked; crazed; cuckoo; daft; delirious; demented; deranged; lunatic; mad; maniacal; mental; nuts; nutty; psycho; screw loose; screwball; screwy; unbalanced; unglued; unhinged; unzipped; wacky; whacko. |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Only the unbalanced sky showed the approach of dawn, no horizon to the west, and a line to the east. |
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Business | According to Chinese statistics, the value of all agricultural machinery owned by individual rural households accounts for 84.69% of the total value, but the geographic spread of agricultural machinery and the level of mechanization are unbalanced. (references) | |
Political Rights | Ukraine | In addition, the media coverage was significantly unbalanced. (references) |
Ukraine | While most observers agreed that there were few procedural irregularities on voting day, the period leading up to the referendum was marked by unbalanced media coverage and inappropriate involvement of Government officials in turning out the vote and influencing voters on behalf of President Kuchma. (references) | |
Ukraine | The Constitution provides citizens with the right to change their government peacefully, and citizens generally exercise this right in practice; however, the 1999 presidential elections were marred by government pressure on the media that resulted in significantly unbalanced election coverage and by the efforts of the administration to influence voters by pressuring local leaders and officials. (references) | |
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Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Last January, and again last September, I recommended fiscal and moderate tax measures to try to restrain the unbalanced pace of economic expansion. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | We unbalanced our economic system by the huge and unprecedented growth of Federal expenditures and borrowing. |
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| "Unbalanced" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 90.74% of the time. "Unbalanced" is used about 162 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 90.74% | 147 | 25,998 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 6.17% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 3.09% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 162 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "unbalanced": mentally unbalanced. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "unbalanced": balanced-to-unbalanced. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
20 8 chromosome translocation unbalanced | 77 |
magnetic pull unbalanced | 7 |
unbalanced | 6 |
balanced unbalanced | 4 |
audio balanced unbalanced | 4 |
force unbalanced | 3 |
hormone unbalanced | 3 |
translocation unbalanced | 2 |
machine unbalanced washing | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "unbalanced"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i çekuilibruar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مضطرب العقل (psychotic), غير متوازن (lopsided, off balance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неуравновесен (flighty, lop-sided, temperamental, unballasted, unpredictable, unstable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 失衡 (disequilibrium, Overbalance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vyšinutý, tendenèní (tendentious), pomatený (deranged, distempered, haywire, moonstruck, moony, out of one's mind, paranoid, perplexed, scatter-brained), nevyvážený, duševnì nevyrovnaný. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ubalanceret. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | onevenwichtig, niet in balans. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tasapainoton (coarse, firm, hard, heavy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | déséquilibré. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unausgeglichen (disharmonious, Moody, unbalancedly, unequal, uneven, unstable), unausgewogen (inelegant, inelegantly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | άνισος (disparate, unequal, unevenly), ανισόρροποσ (loony, lunatic, of unsound mind). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לא שפוי (insane, unsound), בלתי מאוזן. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kiegyensúlyozatlan (lopsided). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | squilibrato (deranged, insane, lunatic, mad, madman), disarmonico (discordant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 偏食 (unbalanced diet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | へ"しょく (change of color, discoloration, fading, unbalanced diet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | neuchormit (unequalized), neuchohromit, neuchohromaghey, meechorrym (bumpy, ill-balanced, inequitable, uneven), cur ass cohrimmid. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | alancedunbay desequilibrado (off-balance, top-heavy, touched, wacky). (various references) neechilibrat, lipsit de echilibru, dezechilibrat (crazy, distempered, unhinged), dezaxat, descumpãnit. (various references) неуравновешенный (inequable, off balance, unequable, unstable). (various references) neuravnotežen (off balance), nesaldiran. (various references) desequilibrado (lopsided, off one's balance, one sided, unreasonable). (various references) obalanserad (unstable). (various references) dengesiz (astatic, deranged, immoderate, inequable, lop-sided, Moody, non compos, non compos mentis, off one's rocker, out-of-balance, uncompensated, uneven, unstable), akli dengesi bozuk (mentally deranged, of unsound mind). (various references) нестійкий (astatic, broken, catching, chancy, dicky, drunk, erratic, groggy, infirm, labile, non-persistent, non-resistant, quaky, sliding, staggering, tickle, top heavy, unfixed, unsettled, unsteady, wambly, yielding), неврівноважений (uneven), позбавлений душевної рівноваги. (various references) anghytbwys (lopsided, unequal in weight). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 26, Verse 24 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Tauta de autou apologoumenou o fhstoV megalh th fwnh efh mainh paule ta polla se grammata eiV manian peritrepei |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Haec loquente eo et rationem reddente Festus magna voce dixit insanis Paule multae te litterae ad insaniam convertunt |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Whanne he spak these thingis, and yeldide resoun, Festus seide with greet vois, Poul, thou maddist; many lettris turnen thee to woodnesse. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | As he thus answered for him selfe: Festus sayde with a lowde voyce: Paul thou arte besides thy selfe. Moche learnynge hath made the mad. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And as he was thus speaking for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee insane. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And when he made his answer in these words, Festus said in a loud voice, Paul, you are off your head; your great learning has made you unbalanced. |
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| Language | Acts Chapter 26, Verse 24 |
| Albanian | Dhe, ndërsa Pali i thoshte këto gjëra në mbrojtje të tij, Festi tha me zë të lartë: ''Pal, ti je tërbuar; studimet e shumta të bënë të shkallosh". |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ug samtang si Pablo sa ingon niini naghimo sa iyang panalipod, si Festo sa makusog nga tingog miingon kaniya, "Nagsalimoang ka, Pablo. Ang imong daghang hingkat-unan nakapaboang kanimo." |
| Croatian | Dok se on tako branio, Fest æe mu u sav glas: "Mahnitaš, Pavle! Veliko ti znanje mozgom zavrnulo." |
| Danish | Men da han forsvarede sig således, sagde Festus med høj Røst: "Du raser, Paulus! den megen Lærdom gør dig rasende." |
| Dutch | En als hij deze dingen tot verantwoording sprak, zeide Festus met grote stem: Gij raast, Paulus, de grote geleerdheid brengt u tot razernij! |
| Finnish | Mutta kun hän näin puolustautui, sanoi Festus suurella äänellä: "Sinä olet hullu, Paavali, suuri oppi hulluttaa sinut". |
| French | Comme il parlait ainsi pour sa justification, Festus dit haute voix: Tu es fou, Paul! Ton grand savoir te fait déraisonner. |
| German | Da er aber solches zur Verantwortung gab, sprach Festus mit lauter Stimme: Paulus, du rasest! Die große Kunst macht dich rasend. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Sementara Paulus mengemukakan pembelaannya itu, Festus berteriak, "Kau sudah gila Paulus! Ilmumu yang banyak itu sudah menjadikan engkau gila!" |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Sedang ia memberi jawabannya demikian, maka Pestus pun berkatalah dengan nyaring suaranya, "Gila engkau, hai Paulus, ilmu yang berlebih-lebih itu menggilakan engkau." |
| Italian | Mentr'egli parlava così in sua difesa, Festo a gran voce disse: «Sei pazzo, Paolo; la troppa scienza ti ha dato al cervello!». |
| Maori | ¶ I a ia e korero ana i enei mea, nui atu te reo o Petuha ki te karanga, E Paora, he haurangi koe; na te nui o tau korero pukapuka i haurangi ai koe. |
| Norwegian | Men da han forsvarte sig således, sier Festus med høi røst: Du er vanvittig, Paulus! din megen lærdom driver dig til vanvidd. |
| Portuguese | Fazendo ele deste modo a sua defesa, disse Festo em alta voz: Estás louco, Paulo; as muitas letras te fazem delirar. |
| Rumanian | Pe cknd vorbea el astfel ca sq se apere, Festus a zis cu glas tare: ,,Pavele, ewti nebun! Knvqyqtura ta cea multq te face sq dai kn nebunie.`` |
| Russian | лПЗ"Б ПО ФБЛ ЪБЭЙЭБМУС, жЕУФ ЗТПНЛЙН ЗПМПУПН УЛБЪБМ: 'ЕЪХНУФЧХЕЫШ ФЩ, рБЧЕМ! 'ПМШЫБС ХЮЕОПУФШ "ПЧП"ЙФ ФЕ'С "П УХНБУЫЕУФЧЙС. |
| Shuar | ¶ Tura nuna takui Jistu kakantar Tímiayi "Maaj, Papru, Wáurme. Imiá unuimiatu asam Wáurkame" Tímiayi. |
| Spanish | Mientras él decía estas cosas en su defensa, Festo le dijo a gran voz: --¡Estás loco, Pablo! ¡Las muchas letras te vuelven loco! |
| Swahili | Paulo alipofika hapa katika kujitetea kwake, Festo alisema kwa sauti kubwa, "Paulo! Una wazimu! Kusoma kwako kwingi kunakutia wazimu!" |
| Uma | ¶ Bula-na Paulus mololita-pidi mpo'uli' noa' -na, mejeu' -mi Festus na'uli': "Wuli-ko Paulus! Kapantea-nu to wori' tetu mpokeni-ko wuli." |
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Misspellings | |
"Unbalanced" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unblanched. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unbalanced" (pronounced unba"lunst) |
| 7 | -b a" l u n s t | balanced, counterbalanced. |
| 5 | -l u n s t | silenced. |
| 4 | -u n s t | countenanced, distanced, evidenced, experienced, inconvenienced, inexperienced, influenced, licensed, referenced, sentenced, unlicensed. |
| 3 | -n s t | advanced, against, announced, bounced, commenced, condensed, convinced, danced, denounced, dispensed, enhanced, ensconced, entranced, evinced, fenced, financed, glanced, incensed, minced, mispronounced, nuanced, pounced, pronounced, refinanced, renounced, sensed, trounced, unannounced, unbeknownst, unconvinced, underfinanced, unfenced, winced. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-d-e-l-n-n-u" | |
-1 letter: abundance, unbalance. | |
-2 letters: balanced, cannulae. | |
-3 letters: balance, bandeau, canaled, candela, cannula, canulae, decanal, lacunae, nuanced, unclean, unlaced, unladen. | |
-4 letters: abduce, alcade, anlace, anneal, annual, aubade, bacula, banned, belaud, bundle, cabled, candle, canned, cannel, canula, caudal, caudle, cedula, cuneal, duenna, lacuna, lacune, lanced, landau, launce, nebula, nuance, nuncle, unable, unbend, unclad, unlace, unlade, unlead. | |
-5 letters: acned. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-d-e-l-n-n-u" | |
+1 letter: undanceable. | |
+5 letters: counterbalanced. | |
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