Antonyms of verb unbalance

1 of 2 senses 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")
       Antonym 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")

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

2 senses 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")

Sense 2
unbalance, derange -- (derange mentally, throw out of mental balance; make insane; "The death of his parents unbalanced him")
       => madden, craze -- (cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind)

Antonyms of adj unbalanced

3 senses of unbalanced

Sense 1
unbalanced (vs. balanced), imbalanced -- (being or thrown out of equilibrium)

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")

Sense 2
brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged -- (affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad")

INDIRECT (VIA insane) -> sane -- (mentally healthy; free from mental disorder; "appears to be completely sane")

Sense 3
unbalanced -- (debits and credits are not equal)

INDIRECT (VIA unequal) -> equal -- (having the same quantity, value, or measure as another; "on equal terms"; "all men are equal before the law")

Similarity of adj unbalanced

3 senses of unbalanced

Sense 1
unbalanced (vs. balanced), imbalanced -- (being or thrown out of equilibrium)
       => labile -- (liable to change; "an emotionally labile person")

Sense 2
brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged -- (affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad")
       => insane (vs. sane) -- (afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement; "was declared insane"; "insane laughter")

Sense 3
unbalanced -- (debits and credits are not equal)
       => unequal (vs. equal) -- (poorly balanced or matched in quantity or value or measure)

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