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Adjective: unconscious  ,ún'kón-shus
  1. Without conscious volition
     
  2. (followed by 'of') not knowing or perceiving
    "happily unconscious of the new calamity at home"
     
  3. Not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead
    "lay unconscious on the floor"
Noun: unconscious  ,ún'kón-shus
  1. That part of the mind wherein psychic activity takes place of which the person is unaware
    - unconscious mind

Derived forms: unconsciouses

See also: asleep, cold, comatose, incognisant [Brit], incognizant, innocent [archaic], insensible, involuntary, kayoed, knocked out, KO'd, nonconscious, nonvoluntary, out, out of it, semicomatose, senseless, sleeping, stunned, subconscious, unaware, unvoluntary

Type of: brain, head, loaf [Brit, informal], mind

Antonym: conscious

Encyclopedia: Unconscious