unballasted
Americanadjective
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not fitted with or carrying ballast.
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not properly steadied or regulated.
Etymology
Origin of unballasted
First recorded in 1635–45; un- 1 + ballast ( def. ) + -ed 2 ( def. )
Example Sentences
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The American author depresses me; he makes me feel commonplace and new and unballasted.
From What Dreams May Come by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
Valour unballasted but lands its freight On the enemy's shore.—What has become of Hill?
From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas
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 Verne, Jules
It was a rickety concern, was unballasted, and looked as if, loosely thrown together, it had never filled its original mission and had been practically abandoned.
From Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent by Chapman, Allen
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 Comstock, Enos B. (Enos Benjamin)
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