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Meaning of UNCONSCIOUS

Pronunciation:  un'kânshus

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  that part of the mind wherein psychic activity takes place of which the person is unaware
  2. [adj]  not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead; "lay unconscious on the floor"
  3. [adj]  without conscious volition
 
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 Synonyms: cold, comatose, ignorant, innocent, kayoed, knocked out(p), KO'd, nonconscious, out(p), semicomatose, senseless, stunned, subconscious, unconscious mind
 
 Antonyms: conscious
 
 See Also: asleep(p), brain, head, id, insensible, involuntary, mind, nonvoluntary, nous, psyche, superego, unaware, unvoluntary

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Un*con"scious\, 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.
2. Not known or apprehended by consciousness; as, an
   unconscious cerebration. ``Unconscious causes.''
   --Blackmore.
3. Having no knowledge by experience; -- followed by of; as,
   a mule unconscious of the yoke. --Pope. --
   {Un*con"scious-ly}, adv. -- {Un*con"scious*ness}, n.
 
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