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say it: BAL-uhnst
balanced is an adjective meaning "being in a state of proper equilibrium". It carries one recorded sense.
being in a state of proper equilibrium
“the carefully balanced seesaw”
“a properly balanced symphony orchestra”
“a balanced assessment of intellectual and cultural history”
“a balanced blend of whiskeys”
“the educated man shows a balanced development of all his powers”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for balanced come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.