unballasted

American  

[uhn-bal-uh-stid] / ʌnˈbæl ə stɪd /

adjective

1. not fitted with or carrying ballast.

2. not properly steadied or regulated.

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Etymology

Origin of unballasted

First recorded in 1635–45; un- ¹ + ballast ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

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Example Sentences

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unballasted

The American author depresses me; he makes me feel commonplace and new and unballasted.

From What Dreams May Come by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Then, as if the clouds had discharged their aqueous cargo and rode light as unballasted ships, they lifted in aerial fleets and sailed away, white in a blue sky.

From The Hidden Places by Bertrand W. Sinclair

I hastened to prevent him; but he overthrew me with one hand, and the unballasted balloon ascended to two thousand yards.

From A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories by Jules Verne

There was danger of this, for many of the fathers who sent him pupils unballasted by the two pennies were near.

From The Cabin [La barraca] by Vicente Blasco Ib??ez

Upon two descents that were too precipitous to venture unballasted, I tied fair-sized pine trees to the rear of my craft to act as drag-anchors.

From A Mountain Boyhood by Enos B. (Enos Benjamin) Comstock

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