Not furnished with ballast; not kept steady by ballast; unsteady; as, unballasted vessels; unballasted wits. "Unballasted by any sufficient weight of plan."
... give a trifle to-night,' observed Mr. Snitchey, who was a good-natured man, 'if I could believe that Mr. Warden was reckoning without his host; but, light-headed, capricious, and unballasted as he is, he knows something of the world and its people (he ought to, for he has bought what he does know, dear enough); and I can't quite think that. We had better not interfere: we can do nothing, Mr. ... — The Battle of Life • Charles Dickens
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