balanced

/ˈbælənst/

/ˈbælənst/

If something is balanced, it has equal proportions or a stable sense of balance. A balanced yoga pose is one in which you're not falling over constantly.

A balanced gymnast won't fall off the balance beam, and a balanced team combines players' skills to form a stable, equitable group. Balanced information in a news report gives you the opposing sides of an issue, and a balanced diet includes some food from all the different nutritional groups. Balanced comes from the verb balance, "be equal with," from the noun form of the word, with its Old French root, balance, "scales for weighing."

Definitions of balanced

1. adjective

   being in a state of proper equilibrium
   “the carefully balanced seesaw”

   “a properly balanced symphony orchestra”

   “a balanced assessment of intellectual and cultural history”

   “the educated man shows a balanced development of all his powers”

   synonyms:

   counterbalanced, counterpoised

   brought into equipoise by means of a weight or force that offsets another

   harmonious, proportionate, symmetrical

   exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities

   poised

   marked by balance or equilibrium and readiness for action

   self-balancing

   of someone or something that balances himself or itself

   stable

   maintaining equilibrium

   well-balanced

   in an optimal state of balance or equilibrium

   antonyms:

   unbalanced

   being or thrown out of equilibrium

   labile

   liable to change