ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Unballasted

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Unballasted is an adjective meaning (shipping) Not loaded or stabilised with ballast.

Meaning

(shipping) Not loaded or stabilised with ballast.

More Meanings

  1. (figurative) Unstable, liable to flounder.

Example Sentences

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.
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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unloaded, unpalleted, unbuoyed, unmunitioned, unfreighted, unboarded.

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