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Unbalanced

adjective

Being or thrown out of equilibrium. Synonym: imbalanced.

Affected with madness or insanity. Synonyms: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unhinged.

Debits and credits are not equal.

Unbalance

verb

Throw out of balance or equilibrium. "The prima donna unbalances the smooth work in our department"

Derange mentally, throw out of mental balance; make insane. Synonym: derange.

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"Unbalanced" Quotes from Famous Books

... driftwood. Both Wabi and his Indian companion flung themselves on the shore side of their birch and dug their paddles deep into the water, but their efforts were unavailing to save their reckless comrade. Unbalanced by the concussion of his gun, Rod plunged backward into the river, but before he had time to sink, Wabi reached over and grabbed him by ...

— The Wolf Hunters - A Tale of Adventure in the Wilderness • James Oliver Curwood

... pressure is produced on a piston by admitting steam or air upon the one side, and withdrawing the steam or air from the other side. It is not, therefore, to a vacuum, but rather to the existence of an unbalanced plenum, that the pressure made manifest by exhaustion is due, and it is obvious therefore that a vacuum of itself would ...

— A Catechism of the Steam Engine • John Bourne

... There was something surging up inside of him, unknown, unreasonable; heart's blood was rushing about his system inconveniently; his pulse was hammering—why? He knew why; this sudden vision of a girl reminded him—took him back—he cut through that idea swiftly; he was ill, unbalanced, obsessed with one memory, but he would not allow himself to ...

— August First • Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews and Roy Irving Murray

... discussing whether or not the greatest Russian of them all, after Lenin, had been mad. The implications were, of course, that many of the purges, certainly the latter ones, were the result of the whims of a mental case, that the Soviet Complex had for long years been ruled by a man as unbalanced as Czar Peter ...

— Freedom • Dallas McCord Reynolds

... imagination or spiritual ideals. Not much less ridiculous, though much more deserving of sympathy, is Don Quixote, who represents the type of person who is controlled by imagination and fanciful ideals, unbalanced by practical judgment. The life of a person of either type must be filled ...

— Children's Literature - A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes • Charles Madison Curry

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