imbalance

Other forms of imbalance

plural

imbalances·

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.

Questions about imbalance

What does imbalance mean?

imbalance means "a lack of balance or state of disequilibrium". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in imbalance?

imbalance has 3 syllables: im-bal-ance. The stress falls on "bal". In IPA it is /ɪmˈbæləns/.

What is another word for imbalance?

Close synonyms include instability, unbalance, asymmetry, dissymmetry. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of imbalance?

The recorded antonyms are balance.

Is imbalance a common word?

imbalance is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with imbalance?

3 words rhyme with imbalance. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.