unconscious

1. 1.

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

   “lay unconscious on the floor”

   Antonymsconscious

   Similarcoldcomatoseinnocentinsensibleknocked outnonconscioussemicomatosesubconscious
2. 2.

   without conscious volition

   Similarinvoluntary
3. 3.

   (followed by `of') not knowing or perceiving

   “happily unconscious of the new calamity at home”

   Similarunaware

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsunconscious mind

   Broadermind

   Partssuperegoid

Other forms of unconscious

plural

unconsciouses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about unconscious

What does unconscious mean?

unconscious means "not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in unconscious?

unconscious has 3 syllables: un-con-scious. The stress falls on "con". In IPA it is /ˌʌnˈkɑnʃəs/.

What is another word for unconscious?

Close synonyms include unconscious mind. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of unconscious?

The recorded antonyms are conscious.

Is unconscious a common word?

unconscious is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with unconscious?

3 words rhyme with unconscious. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.