Unconscious

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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     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.
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     3. Having no knowledge by experience; -- followed by of; as,
        a mule unconscious of the yoke. --Pope.
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     4. Unintentional; as, an unconscious insult.
        [PJC] -- {Un*con"scious*ly}, adv. -- {Un*con"scious*ness},
        n.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  unconscious
       adj 1: not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for
              sensory perception as if asleep or dead; "lay
              unconscious on the floor" [ant: {conscious}]
       2: without conscious volition
       3: (followed by `of') not knowing or perceiving; "happily
          unconscious of the new calamity at home"- Charles Dickens
          [syn: {unconscious(p)}]
       n : that part of the mind wherein psychic activity takes place
           of which the person is unaware [syn: {unconscious mind}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  196 Moby Thesaurus words for "unconscious":
     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