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unconscious |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Unconscious \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: unconscious adj 1: not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead; "lay unconscious on the floor" [ant: {conscious}] 2: without conscious volition 3: (followed by `of') not knowing or perceiving; "happily unconscious of the new calamity at home"- Charles Dickens [syn: {unconscious(p)}] n : that part of the mind wherein psychic activity takes place of which the person is unaware [syn: {unconscious mind}]
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