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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[Properly p. p. of

unballast

Freed from ballast; having discharged ballast.

[Pref.

un-

not +

ballasted

Not furnished with ballast; not kept steady by ballast; unsteady;

as,

unballasted

vessels;

unballasted

wits

Unballasted

by any sufficient weight of plan.

De Quincey.

, a.

Freed from ballast.

a. Not furnished with ballast; not kept steady by ballast or by weight; unsteady; as unballasted wits.

'Unballast vessel,' for unballasted, in Addison, is an unauthorized phrase.

unballasted ‎(not comparable)

Not loaded or stabilized with ballast.
- 1908, Allen Chapman, Bart Stirling's Road to Success:
  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.
- 1922, Bertrand W. Sinclair, The Hidden Places:
  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.