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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

UNBAL'ANCED, a.
1. Not balanced; not poised; not in equipoise.
Let earth unbalanc'd from her orbit fly.
2. Not adjusted; not settled; not brought to an equality of debt and credit; as an unbalanced account.
3. Not restrained by equal power; as unbalanced parties.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: being or thrown out of equilibrium [syn: unbalanced, imbalanced] [ant: balanced]
2: affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad" [syn: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged]
3: debits and credits are not equal

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1650 not balanced: as a. not in equilibrium b. mentally disordered or deranged c. not adjusted so as to make credits equal to debits <an unbalanced account>

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Unbalanced Un*bal"anced, a. [In senses 1 and 2, pref. un- not + balanced; in sense 3, 1st pref. un- + balance.] 1. Not balanced; not in equipoise; having no counterpoise, or having insufficient counterpoise. Let Earth unbalanced from her orbit fly. --Pope. 2. (Com.) Not adjusted; not settled; not brought to an equality of debt and credit; as, an unbalanced account; unbalanced books. 3. Being, or being thrown, out of equilibrium; hence, disordered or deranged in sense; unsteady; unsound; as, an unbalanced mind. --Pope.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you describe someone as unbalanced, you mean that they appear disturbed and upset or they seem to be slightly mad. I knew how unbalanced Paula had been since my uncle Peter died... = disturbed ADJ 2. If you describe something such as a report or argument as unbalanced, you think that it is unfair or inaccurate because it emphasizes some things and ignores others. UN officials argued that the report was unbalanced. ...unbalanced and unfair reporting. = biased ? balanced ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Not poised, not balanced. 2. Unadjusted (as accounts), unsettled. 3. Unsteady, unsound, not sane.

Moby Thesaurus

abnormal, asymmetric, asymmetrical, batty, bereft of reason, bonkers, brainsick, canted, certifiable, crackbrained, cracked, crazed, crazy, daffy, daft, deluded, demented, deprived of reason, deranged, disoriented, disproportionate, distraught, disturbed, dizzy, eccentric, flighty, hallucinated, heeling, ill-balanced, illegal, inequitable, iniquitous, insane, irrational, irregular, leaning, listing, loco, lopsided, lunatic, mad, maddened, manic, mazed, mental, mentally deficient, meshuggah, moon-struck, non compos, non compos mentis, nonsymmetrical, not all there, not right, nuts, odd, of unsound mind, off, off-balance, off-center, overbalanced, psycho, queer, reasonless, senseless, shaky, sick, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange, tetched, top-heavy, touched, uncentered, undeserved, undue, unequal, unequitable, uneven, unhinged, unjust, unlawful, unmeet, unmerited, unrightful, unsane, unsettled, unsound, unstable, unsteady, unsymmetrical, wacky, wandering, witless, wobbly, wrong, wrongful