Word Meanings - COUNTERBALANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance. The remaining air was not able to counterbalance the mercurial cylinder. Boyle. The cstudy of mind is necessary

Additional info about word: COUNTERBALANCE

To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance. The remaining air was not able to counterbalance the mercurial cylinder. Boyle. The cstudy of mind is necessary to counterbalance and correct the influence of the study of nature. Sir W. Hamilton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COUNTERBALANCE)

• Neutralize
• Counteract
• compensate
• counterbalance
• counterpoise
• countervail

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of COUNTERBALANCE)

• Over-balance
• aggravate

Related words: (words related to COUNTERBALANCE)

• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• NEUTRALIZE
  To render inert or imperceptible the peculiar affinities of, as a chemical substance; to destroy the effect of; as, to neutralize an acid with a base. 3. To destroy the peculiar or opposite dispositions of; to reduce to a state of indifference
• COUNTERACT
  To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice.
• COUNTERVAIL
  To act against with equal force, power, or effect; to thwart or overcome by such action; to furnish an equivalent to or for; to counterbalance; to compensate. Upon balancing the account, the profit at last will hardly countervail the inconveniences
• COUNTERPOISE
  countrepesen, counterpeisen, F. contrepeser. See Counter, adv., and 1. To act against with equal weight; to equal in weght; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance. Weigts, counterpoising one another. Sir K. Digby. 2. To act against with equal
• COUNTERBALANCE
  To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance. The remaining air was not able to counterbalance the mercurial cylinder. Boyle. The cstudy of mind is necessary
• AGGRAVATE
  1. To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase. "To aggravate thy store." Shak. 2. To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify. "To aggravate my woes." Pope.
• NEUTRALIZER
  One who, or that which, neutralizes; that which destroys, disguises, or renders inert the peculiar properties of a body.
• COUNTERACTIVELY
  By counteraction.
• COUNTERACTION
  Action in opposition; hindrance resistance. do not . . . overcome the counteraction of a false principle or of stubborn partiality. Johnson.
• COMPENSATE
  prop., to weigh several things with one another, to balance with one 1. To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompence; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses.