1. Having equal or appropriate weight, force, or proportion on all sides or components
   "The composition of the painting was perfectly balanced"; "a balanced blend of whiskeys"
    
2. Showing good judgment and even-handed consideration
   "She gave a balanced review of recent political disagreements"
    
3. Maintaining physical equilibrium
   "the carefully balanced seesaw"
    
4. (of accounts or budgets) having equal debits and credits, with no deficit
   "The company's books were balanced at year-end"

1. Bring into balance or equilibrium
   "She has to balance work and her domestic duties"; "balance the two weights";
   - equilibrate, equilibrize, equilibrise [Brit]
    
2. Be in equilibrium
   "He was balancing on one foot"
    
3. Hold or carry in equilibrium
   "She balanced the book on her head";
   - poise
    
4. Compute credits and debits of an account
   "The accountant balanced the books at the end of the fiscal year"; "She balanced her chequebook every month"

See also: counterbalanced, counterpoised, harmonious, poised, proportionate, self-balancing, stable, symmetrical, well-balanced

Type of: account, be, bear, carry, fit, hold, match

Antonym: imbalanced, unbalance

Encyclopedia: Balanced