Read full poem →Thus good or bad, to one extreme betray
Th' unbalanced mind, and snatch the man away;
For virtue's self may too much zeal be had;
Dictionary Entry
Not steady, stable, or in equal proportion; lacking balance.
In a Sentence
“The heavy boxes made the cart unbalanced, causing it to tip over.”
Origin
From Old French 'balancier' meaning 'to weigh'.
Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “unbalanced”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The English blotted slavery from their books
And left their books unbalanced in point of cash,
But balanced richly in a manhood gain.
Read full poem →Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks
were remedied by examining other copies of the same poems.
Read full poem →they want, and generally they want something reasonable. We don't
legislate for the freaks, the unbalanced, the abnormal; or if we do
restrict the vote in those cases, let's restrict it for males as
Read full poem →"He is a charming man"--"But after all what did he mean?"--
"His pointed ears... He must be unbalanced,"--
"There was something he said that I might have challenged."