Thesaurus:balance

Thesaurus

balance

English

Verb

(transitive)

Sense: to bring to an equipoise; to bring into equilibrium

Synonyms

• balance
• counterbalance
• equilibrate
• equilibrize
• equipoise
• poise

Antonyms

• disequilibrate
• overbalance
• overpoise
• unbalance
•   —
• misbalance
•   —
• fall over
• lose one's balance

Hyponyms

• equiponderate    [⇒ thesaurus]

Further reading

• “27. equality” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “balance” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.