ballast
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7.6
- noun
- /ˈbæl.əst/
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apoyo
- The support from friends provided the ballast she needed to maintain her mental health.
- serve as ballast
- provide ballast
- add some ballast
And we know sleep is providing this ballast to your mental health.
- And we know sleep is providing this ballast to your mental health.
- So like, as a mum, you can use children as ballast every day of the week.
- So that gave it some cultural, you know, you might say ballast.
Examples
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His strong values were a constant ballast, helping him navigate life's challenges.
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At the simplest level, emigrants were the "human ballast" on the westward journey of ships that had carried such cargo as flaxseed and timber.
Academic text (1993) -
And we know sleep is providing this ballast to your mental health.
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Plying a sea of questions without the ballast of knowledge is a dangerous business.
Academic text (1991) -
Points 1 and 2 are the worldview; points 3 and 4 are the ballast that keeps them in place.
Blog text (9) -
Knowledgeable and experienced bureaucrats came to serve as ballast against impulsive changes.
Academic text (2018) -
Lacking conceptual ballast, Putin's team is not in a good position to make strategic choices, as during the last years of the Yeltsin era.
Academic text (2001) -
Isaac was without the ballast that heretofore had kept him afloat in a sea of maternal misgivings.
Fiction book (1995) -
Samuel Beckett writes in his study of Proust: "Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit."
Academic text (2008) -
Her positive attitude served as emotional ballast during difficult times.
Synonyms
43
4.0
A person or thing that gives support and makes someone feel confident
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
An electrical part that keeps the flow of electricity steady when temperature changes
How Stabilizing
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ballast also became a word for anything that keeps you steady; think of a heavy weight in a boat, so it means something that gives a person 'stability' or calm in hard times.