OVERBALANCED Synonyms: 45 Similar and Opposite Words

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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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Adjective

Get clear on the arrangement — bills, loans, investments or unequal spending habits could become a source of tension, especially if your own priorities are changing.

— Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 20 July 2026
While defense spending remains unequal among European NATO countries, most countries have made progress on increasing the means devoted to military capabilities.

— Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 17 July 2026

Definition of unequal

Verb

But over long stretches of time, the potential negatives are far outweighed by the inherent profitability of being paid to assume the risks that your customers want to lay off on you.

— Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 20 July 2026
The play’s issues are greatly outweighed by the many hilarious lines that crackle all over the stage, so many of them perfectly timed and out of left field, causing surprising morsels of legit laughter.

— David John Chávez, Mercury News, 17 July 2026

Definition of outweighed

Adjective

Meanwhile, a small population of high earners would receive up to five votes each—a fivefold multiplier on political power concentrated in the hands of people already holding disproportionate economic power.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 27 July 2026
The compounding advantage that accrues to early movers is disproportionate to the initial investment differential.

— Shiv Kaushik, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026

Definition of disproportionate

Adjective

Spence lost a lopsided unanimous decision to Tim Tszyu on Sunday morning in Sydney, Australia and announced his retirement in the ring.

— Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
Vermont also doesn't have the kind of lopsided cost-of-living metrics that make such initiatives in Oklahoma, Alabama or West Virginia attractive.

— Scott Neuman, NPR, 24 July 2026

Definition of lopsided

Adjective

For the 18-year-old, who was diagnosed with the congenital heart condition Wolff-Parkinson-White at 15 years old, the episode wasn’t abnormal.

— Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 30 July 2026
Follow-up care at the now-familiar UCSF confirmed severe precancerous dysplasia, or abnormal cells that, if left untreated, could develop into cancer.

— Sara Moniuszko, USA Today, 30 July 2026

Definition of abnormal

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