UNCONSCIOUS • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Unconscious

Translators

Dictionaries

Courses

Other

Home

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/ˌənkˈɑnʃəs/ Listen

adjective

unconscious adj.

Not conscious; having no consciousness or power of mental perception; without cerebral appreciation; hence, not knowing or regarding; ignorant; as, an unconscious man.

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."

Having no knowledge by experience; followed by of; as, a mule unconscious of the yoke.

Unintentional; as, an unconscious insult.

noun

unconscious 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.

See images of 'Unconscious'

Etymology of 'Unconscious'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Unconscious" Quotes from Famous Books

... ancient and faithful subject from the ground; and even in that moment of fear, and anxiety, and danger, insisted on leading him to his seat, upon which he sunk in apparent exhaustion, his head drooping upon his long white beard, and big unconscious tears mingling with its silver hairs. Alice and Albert remained with the King, arguing and ...

— Woodstock; or, The Cavalier • Sir Walter Scott

... of General Braddock. He was then about eighteen years old. The Indians took him to the French fort where Pittsburg now is. They made him run the gauntlet; that is, they made him run between two lines of Indians, who were beating him all the way. He was so badly beaten that he became unconscious, and was ill for a good while after. But at length he got well, and the Indians took him to their own country in what is now the State ...

— Stories of American Life and Adventure • Edward Eggleston

... companion. Unfortunately, the said companion had drunk the contents of the water jar while Arthur was unconscious, and when Arthur Pym felt thirsty, he discovered that there was "not a drop to drink!" His lantern had gone out during his prolonged faint; he could not find the candles and the tinder-box, and he then resolved to rejoin Augustus ...

— An Antarctic Mystery • Jules Verne

... expect a gradual, almost unconscious struggle, between the serf and his lord for political power. The struggle came, but it was conscious and very fierce. It was brought about by a terrible pestilence, known as the Black Death. This plague came slowly ...

— A Short History of Wales • Owen M. Edwards

... cried, clapping her hands with delight at the fantasy. "And we'll get that Yankee man to write her a pass just like mine. Do you hear that, Cap'n Susan," she crooned to the doll, unconscious of the convulsion of silent amusement beside her. "When we get to Richmon'—if we ever do get there—I'm going to make you ...

— The Littlest Rebel • Edward Peple

More quotes...