| 单词 | imbalanced |
| 释义 | imbalanced (once / 262652 pages) adj A situation is imbalanced if it's not equitable or fair. An imbalanced workplace might pay men more than women for doing the same work. Something that's imbalanced is off-kilter or out of whack. It's out of balance, but not in quite the same way that the adjective unbalanced implies. When you describe something as imbalanced, you're likely talking about a rule, a law, or a procedure, while you might call a shaky wheelbarrow unbalanced. Things that are imbalanced are out of proportion — power itself is something that's frequently imbalanced. WORD FAMILYimbalance: imbalanced, imbalances+/balance: balanced, balancer, balances, balancing, counterbalance, imbalance, microbalance, overbalance, unbalance/balanced: balancedly/balancer: balancers/balancing: balancings, self-balancing/counterbalance: counterbalanced, counterbalances, counterbalancing/overbalance: overbalanced, overbalances, overbalancing/unbalance: unbalanced, unbalances, unbalancing USAGE EXAMPLESThe house sauce is aggressively sweet without tasting imbalanced. New York Times(Oct 26, 2016) Weren't Bill's liaisons, however inadvisable and imbalanced in terms of power, consensual? New York Times(Oct 19, 2016) This imbalanced, man-card mind-set is part of our legacy because children ape the attitudes of the parent whose gender matches their own. New York Times(Oct 14, 2016) adj being or thrown out of equilibrium Syn|Ant unbalanced labile liable to change balanced being in a state of proper equilibrium counterbalanced, counterpoisedbrought into equipoise by means of a weight or force that offsets another harmonious, proportionate, symmetricalexhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities poisedmarked by balance or equilibrium and readiness for action self-balancingof someone or something that balances himself or itself stablemaintaining equilibrium well-balancedin an optimal state of balance or equilibrium |
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