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Unbalanced vs Imperfect - What's the difference?

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Unbalanced is a related term of imperfect.


As adjectives the difference between unbalanced and imperfect

is that unbalanced is not balanced, without equilibrium; dizzy while imperfect is not perfect.

As a verb unbalanced

is (unbalance).

As a noun imperfect is

something having a minor flaw.

unbalanced

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • not balanced, without equilibrium; dizzy
  • irrational or mentally deranged
  • (accounting) not adjusted such that debit and credit correspond
  • (computing) of an expression having different numbers of left and right parentheses
  • (American football) an offensive line with more players on one side of the center than on the other
  • Synonyms

    * out of whack, lopsided, ill-disposed, unstable, inbalance, imbalance

    Verb

    (head)
  • (unbalance)
  • imperfect

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not perfect.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect .
  • * Milton
  • Nothing imperfect or deficient left / Of all that he created.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • Then say not man's imperfect , Heaven in fault; / Say rather, man's as perfect as he ought.
  • (botany) unisexual: having either male (with stamens) or female (with pistil) flowers, but not with both.
  • (taxonomy) Known or expected to be polyphyletic, as of a form taxon.
  • (obsolete) Lacking some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • He stammered like a child, or an amazed, imperfect person.

    Synonyms

    * (not perfect) defective, fallible, faultful

    Antonyms

    * (not perfect) perfect, infallible, faultless * (unisexual) perfect

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something having a minor flaw
  • (grammar) A tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous.