Definition of "counterweighted" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of counterweight. (verb)

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• "As David Owen points out in his forthcoming Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability, in the office campus, people work in sprawling buildings and drive between them; in the high-rise, people work in a compact building, use elevators (which are inherently energy-efficient, since they are counterweighted), and walk to lunch."
• "Maybe the only way you could even imagine tackling your Grand Enterprise was with a confidence bordering on messianic delusion counterweighted by a criticality that damned it as the utmost folly — in short, with a psyche strung tighter than the tension between God and Lucifer if they met in a Harold Pinter play."
• "I just had to do it – I hope it didn't come across as misogynistic or gratuitous … I do think it's counterweighted by the fact that I'm in love now."