Unconscious
[ʌn'kɒnʃəs] or [ʌn'kɑnʃəs]
Definition
(adj.) not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead; 'lay unconscious on the floor' .
(adj.) without conscious volition .
(adj.) (followed by `of') not knowing or perceiving; 'happily unconscious of the new calamity at home'- Charles Dickens .
Checker: Presley--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Not conscious; having no consciousness or power of mental perception; without cerebral appreciation; hence, not knowing or regarding; ignorant; as, an unconscious man.
(a.) Not known or apprehended by consciousness; as, an unconscious cerebration.
(a.) Having no knowledge by experience; -- followed by of; as, a mule unconscious of the yoke.
Editor: Ned
Definition
adj. not conscious: not self-conscious not perceiving.—adv. Uncon′sciously.—n. Uncon′sciousness.
Checked by Cathy
Examples
- Yet they all had lived and died unconscious of the different fates awaiting their relics. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He drifted on swiftly to Beldover, half-unconscious of his own movement. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Real life is beyond his control and influence because real life is largely agitated by impulses and habits, unconscious needs, faith, hope and desire. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- There she lay, unconscious that I was looking at her--quiet, more quiet than I had dared to hope, but not sleeping. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He was divided entirely between his spirit, which stood outside, and knew, and his body, that was a plunging, unconscious stroke of blood. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He put her gently from him, and looked at her unconscious mother. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The evening came, and Eustacia was still seemingly unconscious of the anniversary. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- That's the reason I was born in it, observed Jo pensively, quite unconscious of the blot on her nose. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- That unconscious appeal, so touching and so awful in the sacredness of her sleep, ran through me like fire. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The vessels came in, their officers entirely unconscious that they were falling into the hands of the Union forces. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- When they reached the bank there stood Thomasin, in a stress of grief, bending over the two unconscious ones who already lay there. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Her voluptuous, acute apprehension of him made the blood faint in her veins, her mind went dim and unconscious. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Instances might be multiplied of this easily gained and unconscious popularity. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Jo sweeps his crossing all day long, unconscious of the link, if any link there be. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- As the years went on, she lost more and more count of the world, she seemed rapt in some glittering abstraction, almost purely unconscious. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Editor: Nolan