balanced

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbælənst/

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• Rhymes: -ælənst
• Hyphenation: bal‧anced

Verb

balanced

1. simple past and past participle of balance

Adjective

balanced (comparative more balanced, superlative most balanced)

1. Containing elements in appropriate proportion; proportionately weighted on all dimensions and therefore unlikely to tip over.

   He believed he rarely got sick because of his balanced diet.

Derived terms

• balanced budget
• balanced category
• balanced diet
• balancedness
• contrabalanced
• dysbalanced
• gender-balanced
• imbalanced
• inbalanced
• nonbalanced
• unbalanced
• underbalanced
• well-balanced

Translations

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Arabic: مُتَوَازِن (mutawāzin) Bulgarian: уравновесен (bg) (uravnovesen) Catalan: equilibrat (ca) Czech: vyvážený (cs), vyrovnaný (cs), rovnovážný, vybalancovaný Dutch: evenwichtig (nl), uitgewogen (nl), gebalanceerd (nl) Estonian: tasakaalustatud Finnish: tasapainoinen, tasapuolinen (fi) French: équilibré (fr) Greek: Ancient: πάρισος (párisos) Hindi: संतुलित (hi) (santulit) Hungarian: kiegyensúlyozott (hu) Malay: seimbang (ms) Ottoman Turkish: دنك (denk) Romanian: echilibrat (ro) Russian: сбалансированный (ru) (sbalansirovannyj) Serbo-Croatian: uravnòtēžen (sh) Spanish: equilibrado (es), contrapesado (es), contrabalanceado (es) Turkish: dengeli (tr) Ukrainian: збалансо́ваний (zbalansóvanyj)