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]

English

Pronunciation

Adjective

1. not conscious
2. engaged in skilled performance without conscious control.
   • 1998, Charles Rosen, The Cockroach Basketball League, page 144

     Sam is unconscious, filling it, drilling it from every conceivable angle. Lem is awful and Cooper seems confused. Josh shoots too often.

   • 1999, Joseph Leininger, Terry Whalin, Lessons from the Pit: A Successful Veteran of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, page 10

     "I was unconscious," the basketball player gushes. "It seemed like everything I threw up toward the basket went straight in."

   • 2002, Alexander Wolff, Big Game, Small World: A Basketball Adventure, page 292

     Someone who has reeled off a string of baskets will say, "I was unconscious," as if he were following the Zen injunction to be mindful while suspending thought.

Synonyms

• in the zone, on a roll

Translations

Unconscious can mean:

• not conscious
• unconsciousness: the loss of consciousness or lack of consciousness, not to be confused with altered states of consciousness.
• Unconscious mind, the mind operating well below the perception of the conscious mind as defined by Sigmund Freud and others.

Can also refer to the Spanish film

• Unconscious (film).

See also

• Consciousness
• Unconscious communication
• Subconscious mind
• Carl Jung's concept of collective unconscious

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