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Unballasted

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Not loaded or stabilised with ballast. not-comparable

    "Then, as if the clouds had discharged their aqueous cargo and rode light as unballasted ships, they lifted in aerial fleets and sailed away, white in a blue sky."

  2. 2
    Unstable, liable to flounder. figuratively, not-comparable

    "It was a rickety concern, was unballasted, and looked as if, loosely thrown together, it had never filled its original mission and had been practically abandoned."

Etymology

From un- + ballasted.

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