Definitions for unconscious
ʌnˈkɒn ʃəsun·con·scious

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. unconscious mind, unconsciousadjective

   that part of the mind wherein psychic activity takes place of which the person is unaware

2. unconsciousadjective

   not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead

   "lay unconscious on the floor"

3. unconsciousadjective

   without conscious volition

4. unconscious(p)adjective

   (followed by `of') not knowing or perceiving

   "happily unconscious of the new calamity at home"- Charles Dickens

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. unconsciousnoun

   The unconscious mind

2. unconsciousadjective

   Not awake.

   She lay unconsious on the floor.

3. unconsciousadjective

   Without directed thought or awareness.

   My sudden fright was an unconscious response.

4. unconsciousadjective

   engaged in skilled performance without conscious control.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Unconsciousadjective

   Having no mental perception.

   Unconscious causes only still impart
   Their utmost skill, their utmost power exert;
   Those which can freely chuse, discern, and know,
   Can more or less of art and care bestow. Richard Blackmore.

   A yearling bullock to thy name shall smoke,
   Untam’d, unconscious of the galling yoke. Alexander Pope.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Unconsciousadjective

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

2. Unconsciousadjective

   not known or apprehended by consciousness; as, an unconscious cerebration

3. Unconsciousadjective

   having no knowledge by experience; -- followed by of; as, a mule unconscious of the yoke

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Unconscious

   un-kon′shus, adj. not conscious: not self-conscious, not perceiving.—adv. Uncon′sciously.—n. Uncon′sciousness.

British National Corpus

1. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'unconscious' in Adjectives Frequency: #929

How to pronounce unconscious?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say unconscious in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of unconscious in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of unconscious in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of unconscious in a Sentence

1. Tammie Martin:

   At least 10 minutes after he had been unconscious, from what I can tell, i mean, nobody would let me near him.

2. Houston Fire Chief Sam Peña:

   People began to fall out, become unconscious and it created additional panic.

3. The Divine Pymander:

   The path to immortality is hard, and only a few find it. The rest await the Great Day when the wheels of the universe shall be stopped and the immortal sparks shall escape from the sheaths of substance. Woe unto those who wait, for they must return again, unconscious and unknowing, to the seed-ground of stars, and await a new beginning. Those who are saved by the light of the mystery which I have revealed unto you, O Hermes, and which I now bid you to establish among men, shall return again to the Father who dwelleth in the White Light, and shall deliver themselves up to the Light and shall be absorbed into the Light, and in the Light they shall become Powers in God. This is the Way of Good and is revealed only to them that have wisdom.

4. Mitt Romney:

   It will either be a very short fight, or I will be knocked unconscious, it won't be much of a fight. We'll both suit up and get in the ring and spar around a little bit.

5. Lisa Haisha:

   People who like to fix other people become “catastrophizers. Fixing becomes an unconscious way of preventing a “what if” from happening.

Popularity rank by frequency of use