unconscious
that part of the mind wherein psychic activity takes place of which the person is unaware (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
unconscious mind
• Hypernyms:
mind, head, brain, psyche, nous
• Part Meronyms:
superego, id
1. not conscious;
lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead (Freq. 5)
- lay unconscious on the floor
• Ant:
conscious
• Similar to:
cold, comatose, innocent, insensible, senseless,
knocked out, kayoed, KO'd, out, stunned, nonconscious,
semicomatose, subconscious
• See Also:
asleep, insensible, involuntary, nonvoluntary, unvoluntary,
unaware, incognizant
• Derivationally related forms:
unconsciousness
2. without conscious volition (Freq. 1)
• Similar to:
involuntary, nonvoluntary, unvoluntary
3. (followed by 'of') not knowing or perceiving (Freq. 1)
- "happily unconscious of the new calamity at home"- Charles Dickens
• Similar to:
unaware, incognizant
• Derivationally related forms:
unconsciousness
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