'unconscious' definitions:
Definition of 'unconscious'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead; "lay unconscious on the floor" [ant: conscious]
adjective
Without conscious volition
adjective
(followed by `of') not knowing or perceiving; "happily unconscious of the new calamity at home"- Charles Dickens
noun
That part of the mind wherein psychic activity takes place of which the person is unaware [syn: unconscious mind, unconscious]
Definition of 'unconscious'
From: GCIDE
- unconscious \un*con"scious\ ([u^]n*k[o^]n"sh[u^]s), n. (Psychoanalysis) Usually
- the unconscious; that part of the mind in which mental processes occur that are not accesible to the awareness, but may significantly influence behavior. [PJC] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'unconscious'
From: GCIDE
- unconscious \un*con"scious\ ([u^]n*k[o^]n"sh[u^]s), a.
- 1. Not conscious; having no consciousness or power of mental perception; without cerebral appreciation; hence, not knowing or regarding; ignorant; as, an unconscious man. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Not known or apprehended by consciousness; resulting from neural activity of which a person is not aware; as, an unconscious movement; unconscious cerebration. "Unconscious causes." --Blackmore. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Having no knowledge by experience; -- followed by of; as, a mule unconscious of the yoke. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Unintentional; as, an unconscious insult. [PJC] -- {Un*con"scious*ly}, adv. -- {Un*con"scious*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'unconscious'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a stranger to,
- abiotic,
- absent,
- absentminded,
- absorbed,
- abstracted,
- anima,
- asleep,
- automatic,
- azoic,
- bemused,
- blind,
- blind to,
- castle-building,
- casual,
- cataleptic,
- catatonic,
- caught napping,
- coconscious,
- cold,
- collective unconscious,
- comatose,
- compulsive,
- conditioned,
- conscience,
- conscious self,
- daydreaming,
- daydreamy,
- dead,
- dead asleep,
- dead to,
- deaf,
- deaf to,
- death instinct,
- deep asleep,
- doped,
- dormant,
- dreaming,
- dreamy,
- drowsing,
- drugged,
- dumb,
- ecstatic,
- ego,
- ego ideal,
- ego-id conflict,
- elsewhere,
- engrossed,
- ethical self,
- exanimate,
- faraway,
- fast asleep,
- flaked-out,
- forced,
- foreconscious,
- gut,
- half-awake,
- half-conscious,
- id,
- ill-advised,
- ill-considered,
- ill-devised,
- impercipient,
- impulsive,
- in a reverie,
- in ignorance of,
- in the clouds,
- inadvertent,
- inanimate,
- inanimated,
- incognizant,
- indeliberate,
- inert,
- inherent,
- innate,
- insensate,
- insensible,
- insensible to,
- insentient,
- instinctive,
- involuntary,
- knocked out,
- libidinal,
- libidinal energy,
- libido,
- lifeless,
- lost,
- lost in thought,
- lost to,
- mechanical,
- meditative,
- mind,
- mindless,
- mooning,
- moonraking,
- motive force,
- museful,
- musing,
- mute,
- napping,
- narcotized,
- natural,
- nirvanic,
- nodding,
- nonconceiving,
- nonconscious,
- nonliving,
- not with it,
- numb,
- oblivious,
- out,
- out cold,
- out of it,
- pensive,
- persona,
- personality,
- pipe-dreaming,
- pleasure principle,
- preconscious,
- preoccupied,
- primitive self,
- psyche,
- psychic apparatus,
- racial unconscious,
- rapt,
- reflex,
- reflexive,
- self,
- semiconscious,
- senseless,
- sleeping,
- slumbering,
- snap,
- somewhere else,
- soulless,
- sound asleep,
- spaced out,
- spontaneous,
- stargazing,
- stoned,
- strung out,
- stunned,
- subconscious,
- subconscious mind,
- subliminal,
- subliminal self,
- submerged mind,
- superego,
- taken up,
- transported,
- unadvised,
- unanimated,
- unaware,
- unaware of,
- uncalculated,
- unconscious mind,
- unconscious of,
- unconsidered,
- undeliberate,
- undeliberated,
- undesigned,
- unfeeling,
- unguarded,
- unguided,
- unhearing,
- unheeding,
- uninsightful,
- unintended,
- unintentional,
- unknowing,
- unlearned,
- unmeant,
- unmeditated,
- unmindful,
- unmindful of,
- unperceiving,
- unplanned,
- unprehensive,
- unpremeditated,
- unprompted,
- unpurposed,
- unrealizing,
- unseeing,
- unstudied,
- unsuspecting,
- unthinking,
- unthought-of,
- unwilled,
- unwilling,
- unwitting,
- vital impulse,
- witless,
- woolgathering,
- wrapped in thought,
- zonked,
- zonked out