Antonyms of verb balance

1 of 4 senses of balance

Sense 1
balance, equilibrate, equilibrize, equilibrise -- (bring into balance or equilibrium; "She has to balance work and her domestic duties"; "balance the two weights")
       Antonym of unbalance (Sense 1)
      => unbalance -- (throw out of balance or equilibrium; "The tax relief unbalanced the budget"; "The prima donna unbalances the smooth work in our department")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb balance

4 senses of balance

Sense 1
balance, equilibrate, equilibrize, equilibrise -- (bring into balance or equilibrium; "She has to balance work and her domestic duties"; "balance the two weights")
       => match, fit -- (make correspond or harmonize; "Match my sweater")

Sense 2
balance -- (compute credits and debits of an account)
       => account, calculate -- (keep an account of)

Sense 3
poise, balance -- (hold or carry in equilibrium)
       => hold, carry, bear -- (support or hold in a certain manner; "She holds her head high"; "He carried himself upright")

Sense 4
balance -- (be in equilibrium; "He was balancing on one foot")
       => be -- (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer")

Antonyms of adj balanced

1 sense of balanced

Sense 1
balanced (vs. unbalanced) -- (being in a state of proper equilibrium; "the carefully balanced seesaw"; "a properly balanced symphony orchestra"; "a balanced assessment of intellectual and cultural history"; "a balanced blend of whiskeys"; "the educated man shows a balanced development of all his powers")

unbalanced (vs. balanced), imbalanced -- (being or thrown out of equilibrium)
        => labile -- (liable to change; "an emotionally labile person")

Similarity of adj balanced

1 sense of balanced

Sense 1
balanced (vs. unbalanced) -- (being in a state of proper equilibrium; "the carefully balanced seesaw"; "a properly balanced symphony orchestra"; "a balanced assessment of intellectual and cultural history"; "a balanced blend of whiskeys"; "the educated man shows a balanced development of all his powers")
       => counterbalanced, counterpoised -- (brought into equipoise by means of a weight or force that offsets another)
       => harmonious, proportionate, symmetrical -- (exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities)
       => poised -- (marked by balance or equilibrium and readiness for action; "a gull in poised flight"; "George's poised hammer")
       => self-balancing -- (of someone or something that balances himself or itself)
       => stable -- (maintaining equilibrium)
       => well-balanced -- (in an optimal state of balance or equilibrium; "a well-balanced wheel")

2024, Cloud WordNet Browser