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adjective

Unbalanced adj.

Not balanced; not in equipoise; having no counterpoise, or having insufficient counterpoise. "Let Earth unbalanced from her orbit fly."

(Com.) Not adjusted; not settled; not brought to an equality of debt and credit; as, an unbalanced account; unbalanced books.

Being, or being thrown, out of equilibrium; hence, disordered or deranged in sense; unsteady; unsound; as, an unbalanced mind.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Unbalanced" Quotes from Famous Books

... 840-l. Religious requisites are—, 164-u. Religious systems approximating towards each other; when—, 247-m. Religious teachings conveyed through "exhibition", 355-m. Religious Truths inculcated by Masonry, 576-l. Repining because we are not angels in a world of no changes is folly, 696-m. Repose unbalanced by an analogous movement will not be happiness, 847-l. Republic, danger of government by party, 83-u. Republic, for services to be rendered in the future is one entitled to office in a, 81-u. Republic governed by agitators, 82-l. Republic, hollow, heartless and shallow politicians ...

— Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry • Albert Pike

... such conditions, with no incentive for the care of his person, not even the pride engendered by the association of others, erudite as the standard might be in his vicinity, was apt to grow very shortly into a somewhat sorry spectacle. Give him sixty years of this and add an unbalanced mind, and—Madison did not like the picture that now rose up suddenly before him—a creature, bent, vapid of face, deaf and dumb, frowsy of dress, and a world removed from the thought of a morning bath. ...

— The Miracle Man • Frank L. Packard

... understand that she is in a very unbalanced state. Excitable. A woman in that state is apt to put interpretations on the ...

— Mr. Waddington of Wyck • May Sinclair

... assistants read every line in these papers, and mark everything which seems to have a dangerous look; then he passes final judgment upon these markings. Two things conspire to give to the results a capricious and unbalanced look: his assistants have diversified notions as to what is dangerous and what isn't; he can't get time to examine their criticisms in much detail; and so sometimes the very same matter which is suppressed in one paper fails to be damned in another ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... both the accumulated achievement of generations and the greater promise of the future might be lost irretrievably by failure at this critical moment. 'Surfeit (κορος {koros}) breeds sin ὑβρις {hubris} when prosperity visits unbalanced minds.' In slightly different words, the proverb recurs in the collections of verses attributed to Theognis and to Solon. Its maker refrained from adding what was in his and his hearers' thoughts, that ὑβρις {hubris}, once engendered, breeds αιη {aiê}—the complete and certain destruction ...

— The Legacy of Greece • Various

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