Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of counterbalance
The wind blew from that direction, and brought with it the sound of their voices and laughter. The misery of such sounds was counterbalanced by the certainty that the same wind would waft their own voices, or rather Donna Margaretta's, voice away from the house.
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 69
- Having a counterbalance
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivebrought into equipoise by means of a weight or force that offsets another
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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