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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

unbalanced
    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

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
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            Let Earth unbalanced from her orbit fly. --Pope.
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   2. (Com.) Not adjusted; not settled; not brought to an
      equality of debt and credit; as, an unbalanced account;
      unbalanced books.
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   3. Being, or being thrown, out of equilibrium; hence,
      disordered or deranged in sense; unsteady; unsound; as, an
      unbalanced mind. --Pope.
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Thesaurus Results for unbalanced:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

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