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adjective

as in unequal

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verb

past tense of overbalance
as in outweighed
to be greater in importance than my determination to finish the job overbalanced my exhaustion

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overbalanced
  1. unequal
  2. outweighed
  3. unbalanced
  4. disproportionate
  5. lopsided
  6. asymmetrical
  7. abnormal
Adjective
  • The long tail of this policy-legitimacy gap is already visible in populist movements responding to the unequal distribution of benefits from globalization.
    — Nili Gilbert, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
  • Women thus choose to delay having children until the unequal distribution of household work is resolved.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 7 July 2026
Definition of unequal
Verb
  • Most of us, for instance, are not the oil company executives who were told about the effects of CO2 emissions back in the 1970s and decided that the threat to their business outweighed the threat to the planet.
    — Gabriel Winslow-Yost, The New York Review of Books, 4 July 2026
  • However, the positives have increasingly outweighed the negatives throughout 2026, to the point where, at the time of writing, the game has a 74% positive score for reviews written in the past 30 days (of which there have been 951).
    — Barry Collins, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
Definition of outweighed
Adjective
  • Desperate to soothe symptoms caused by unbalanced hormones, women are turning to a TikTok trend that recommends combining allergy medication and antacids to treat conditions like PMS or menopause.
    — Theara Coleman, TheWeek, 1 July 2026
  • But for a team hoping to go big-game hunting, the balance between what’s being acquired and what’s being given up looks greatly unbalanced — depending on the team making the offer sheet, of course.
    — Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 26 June 2026
Definition of unbalanced
Adjective
  • For a small city, Saarbrücken has disproportionate cultural riches.
    — Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2026
  • When exchanged across programs, those benefits can create fresh reasons for customers to engage without putting disproportionate pressure on the economics of either partner.
    — Jeff Fromm, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
Definition of disproportionate
Adjective
  • Why tokenmaxxing failed This lopsided spending-to-output ratio is what Boston Consulting Group (BCG) noted as a hallmark reason why AI wasn’t creating productivity gains in the workplace.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 7 July 2026
  • This 4-1 defeat was similarly lopsided, despite the larger stakes.
    — John Cassillo, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
Definition of lopsided
Adjective
  • Meanwhile, for the New York premiere of Dutton Ranch, Stewart went for a more sophisticated look, pairing navy blue, open-toe espadrille platforms with an asymmetrical blazer and skinny jeans.
    — Jamie Allison Sanders, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026
  • More recently, Swift has been photographed in Monse, wearing an asymmetrical little black dress designed by Kim and Garcia at Kelce's Tight End University event in Nashville on June 23.
    — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 30 June 2026
Definition of asymmetrical
Adjective
  • In this context, when screening healthy asymptomatic people who aren’t at high risk, the chance at an ideal screening result of identifying abnormal tissue that can be eliminated is very low.
    — Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • The abnormal heat has been driven by the onset of El Niño, a natural climate pattern characterized by unusually warm waters along the equatorial tropical Pacific Ocean.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 1 July 2026
Definition of abnormal
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“Overbalanced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overbalanced. Accessed 10 Jul. 2026.

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