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US
/ˌkaʊntɝˈbæɫənst/
]
[ UK /kˈaʊntəbˌælənst/ ]
[ UK /kˈaʊntəbˌælənst/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- brought into equipoise by means of a weight or force that offsets another
How To Use counterbalanced In A Sentence
- The colorful scenes tend to be counterbalanced by some dark and foreboding sets, and many shots feature subdued lighting that tends to strain shadow detail.
- Some glorious highs are counterbalanced by a few truly grating tracks and a bunch of middle-of-the-road filler, but that's true of any compilation.
- A cheerful wood-fire blazed in the capacious hearth; a little at one side an old-fashioned table, with richly-carved legs, was placed -- destined, no doubt, to receive the supper, for which preparations were going forward; and ranged with exact regularity, stood the tall-backed chairs, whose ungracefulness was more than counterbalanced by their comfort. The Purcell Papers, Volume II
- It's naturally "counterbalanced" by their one Democrat even more concerned for the center than Rosen or Bai, Noah Feldman on differences among orthodox Jews. Quote Of The Day
- Anything which takes away from any freedom must be counterbalanced by benefit. Nick Joy: Why Genetically Modified Salmon Affects My Rights as a Citizen
- They represent the maximum size of possible transactions, assuming that they were not counterbalanced by other transactions in the opposite direction.
- If love, an enduring human ideal, formed the subject of this show, this ideal was counterbalanced by the weight of inanimate things: stones, earth.
- The critical examples in the new and old conditions were counterbalanced across subjects.
- Normally the forces from one molecule are counterbalanced by equal attraction by other molecules but at an interface the forces become unbalanced.
- In the mining district, religious zeal was often counterbalanced by a skeptical, almost mocking, attitude.