unconscious
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
unconscious
- Not awake; having no awareness.
- After the anesthetist administered the general anesthetic the patient was unconscious.
- Without directed thought or awareness.
- My sudden fright was an unconscious response.
- 1884, Margaret Oliphant, The Wizard's Son
- It was intolerable, he felt, to sit and eat in presence of that silent figure partly turned away from him, jotting down the different amounts on a bit of paper, and absorbed in that occupation as if unconscious of his presence.
- (sports) engaged in skilled performance without conscious control.
- 1999, Joseph Leininger, Terry Whalin, Lessons from the Pit: A Successful Veteran of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, page 10
- "I was unconscious," the basketball player gushes. "It seemed like everything I threw up toward the basket went straight in."
- 1999, Joseph Leininger, Terry Whalin, Lessons from the Pit: A Successful Veteran of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, page 10
- (not awake; having no awareness) insentient, oblivious, out of it, out on one's feet, unaware, down for the count, lost to the world
- (skilled performance without conscious control) in the zone, on a roll
- French: inconscient
- German: bewusstlos
- Portuguese: inconsciente, desacordado, desmaiado, esmaecido, desfalecido, incônscio
- Russian: бессозна́тельный
- Spanish: inconsciente
- German: unbewusst, spontan
- Portuguese: inconsciente, automático, involuntário, maquinal, mecânico, incônscio
unconscious (plural unconsciouses)
- (psychology) Unconscious mind
- German: Unbewusstes
- Portuguese: inconsciente
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