unconscious

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: un=con=scious

CIDE DICTIONARY

unconscious, a. 

•  Not conscious; having no consciousness or power of mental perception; without cerebral appreciation; hence, not knowing or regarding; ignorant; as, an unconscious man.  Cowper.  [1913 Webster]
•  Not known or apprehended by consciousness; resulting from neural activity of which a person is not aware; as, an unconscious movement; unconscious cerebration.  Blackmore.  [1913 Webster]
•  Having no knowledge by experience; -- followed by of; as, a mule unconscious of the yoke.  Pope.  [1913 Webster]
•  Unintentional; as, an unconscious insult.  [PJC]

unconscious, n. 

 Usually the unconscious; that part of the mind in which mental processes occur that are not accesible to the awareness, but may significantly influence behavior.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

unconscious, adj. & n.
--adj. not conscious (unconscious of any change; fell unconscious on the floor; an unconscious prejudice).
--n. that part of the mind which is inaccessible to the conscious mind but which affects behaviour, emotions, etc. (cf. collective unconscious).

Derivative

unconsciously adv. unconsciousness n.

THESAURUS

unconscious

a stranger to, abiotic, absent, absentminded, absorbed, abstracted, anima, asleep, automatic, azoic, bemused, blind, blind to, castle-building, casual, cataleptic, catatonic, caught napping, coconscious, cold, collective unconscious, comatose, compulsive, conditioned, conscience, conscious self, daydreaming, daydreamy, dead, dead asleep, dead to, deaf, deaf to, death instinct, deep asleep, doped, dormant, dreaming, dreamy, drowsing, drugged, dumb, ecstatic, ego, ego ideal, ego-id conflict, elsewhere, engrossed, ethical self, exanimate, faraway, fast asleep, flaked-out, forced, foreconscious, gut, half-awake, half-conscious, id, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-devised, impercipient, impulsive, in a reverie, in ignorance of, in the clouds, inadvertent, inanimate, inanimated, incognizant, indeliberate, inert, inherent, innate, insensate, insensible, insensible to, insentient, instinctive, involuntary, knocked out, libidinal, libidinal energy, libido, lifeless, lost, lost in thought, lost to, mechanical, meditative, mind, mindless, mooning, moonraking, motive force, museful, musing, mute, napping, narcotized, natural, nirvanic, nodding, nonconceiving, nonconscious, nonliving, not with it, numb, oblivious, out, out cold, out of it, pensive, persona, personality, pipe-dreaming, pleasure principle, preconscious, preoccupied, primitive self, psyche, psychic apparatus, racial unconscious, rapt, reflex, reflexive, self, semiconscious, senseless, sleeping, slumbering, snap, somewhere else, soulless, sound asleep, spaced out, spontaneous, stargazing, stoned, strung out, stunned, subconscious, subconscious mind, subliminal, subliminal self, submerged mind, superego, taken up, transported, unadvised, unanimated, unaware, unaware of, uncalculated, unconscious mind, unconscious of, unconsidered, undeliberate, undeliberated, undesigned, unfeeling, unguarded, unguided, unhearing, unheeding, uninsightful, unintended, unintentional, unknowing, unlearned, unmeant, unmeditated, unmindful, unmindful of, unperceiving, unplanned, unprehensive, unpremeditated, unprompted, unpurposed, unrealizing, unseeing, unstudied, unsuspecting, unthinking, unthought-of, unwilled, unwilling, unwitting, vital impulse, witless, woolgathering, wrapped in thought, zonked, zonked out

ROGET THESAURUS

unconscious

Necessity

N necessity, involuntariness, instinct, blind impulse, inborn proclivity, innate proclivity, native tendency, natural tendency, natural impulse, predetermination, necessity, necessitation, obligation, compulsion, subjection, stern necessity, hard necessity, dire necessity, imperious necessity, inexorable necessity, iron necessity, adverse necessity, fate, what must be, destiny, destination, fatality, fate, kismet, doom, foredoom, election, predestination, preordination, foreordination, lot fortune, fatalism, inevitableness, spell, star, stars, planet, planets, astral influence, sky, Fates, Parcae, Sisters three, book of fate, God's will, will of Heaven, wheel of Fortune, Ides of March, Hobson's choice, last shift, last resort, dernier ressort, pis aller, necessaries, necessarian, necessitarian, fatalist, automaton, necessary, needful, fated, destined, elect, spellbound compulsory, uncontrollable, inevitable, unavoidable, irresistible, irrevocable, inexorable, avoidless, resistless, involuntary, instinctive, automatic, blind, mechanical, unconscious, unwitting, unthinking, unintentional, impulsive, necessarily, of necessity, of course, ex necessitate rei, needs must, perforce, nolens volens, will he nil he, willy nilly, bon gre mal gre, willing or unwilling, coute que coute, faute de mieux, by stress of, if need be, it cannot be helped, there is no help for, there is no helping it, it will be, it must be, it needs to be, it must be so, it will have its way, the die is cast, jacta est alea, che sara sara, it is written, one's days are numbered, one's fate is sealed, Fata obstant, diis aliter visum, actum me invito factus, non est meus actus, aujord'hui roi demain rien, quisque suos patimur manes, The moving finger writes and having writ moves on, Nor all thy piety nor wit shall draw it back to ca.

Insensibility

N insensibility, insensibleness, moral insensibility, inertness, inertia, vis inertiae, impassibility, impassibleness, inappetency, apathy, phlegm, dullness, hebetude, supineness, lukewarmness, cold fit, cold blood, cold heart, coldness, coolness, frigidity, sang froid, stoicism, imperturbation, nonchalance, unconcern, dry eyes, insouciance, recklessness, callousness, heart of stone, stock and stone, marble, deadness, torpor, torpidity, obstupefaction, lethargy, coma, trance, vegetative state, sleep, suspended animation, stupor, stupefaction, paralysis, palsy, numbness, neutrality, quietism, vegetation, insensible, unconscious, impassive, impassible, blind to, deaf to, dead to, unsusceptible, insusceptible, unimpressionable, unimpressible, passionless, spiritless, heartless, soulless, unfeeling, unmoral, apathetic, leuco-, phlegmatic, dull, frigid, cold blooded, cold hearted, cold as charity, flat, maudlin, obtuse, inert, supine, sluggish, torpid, torpedinous, torporific, sleepy, languid, half-hearted, tame, numbed, comatose, anaesthetic, stupefied, chloroformed, drugged, stoned, palsy-stricken, indifferent, lukewarm, careless, mindless, regardless, inattentive, neglectful, disregarding, unconcerned, nonchalant, pococurante, insouciant, sans souci, unambitious, unaffected, unruffled, unimpressed, uninspired, unexcited, unmoved, unstirred, untouched, unshocked, unstruck, unblushing, unanimated, vegetative, callous, thick-skinned, hard-nosed, pachydermatous, impervious, hardened, inured, casehardened, steeled against, proof against, imperturbable, unfelt, insensibly, aequo animo, without being moved, without being touched, without being impressed, in cold blood, with dry eyes, with withers unwrung, never mind, macht nichts, it is of no consequence, it cannot be helped, nothing coming amiss, it is all the same to, it is all one to.

Ignorance

N ignorance, nescience, tabula rasa, crass ignorance, ignorance crasse, unfamiliarity, unacquaintance, unconsciousness, darkness, blindness, incomprehension, inexperience, simplicity, unknown quantities, x, y, z, sealed book, terra incognita, virgin soil, unexplored ground, dark ages, smattering, sciolism, glimmering, dilettantism, bewilderment, incapacity, pedantry, charlatanry, charlatism, Philister, Philistine, ignorant, nescient, unknowing, unaware, unacquainted, unapprised, unapprized, unwitting, unweeting, unconscious, witless, weetless, a stranger to, unconversant, uninformed, uncultivated, unversed, uninstructed, untaught, uninitiated, untutored, unschooled, misguided, unenlightened, Philistine, behind the age, shallow, superficial, green, rude, empty, half-learned, illiterate, unread, uninformed, uneducated, unlearned, unlettered, unbookish, empty-headed, dizzy, wooly-headed, pedantic, in the dark, benighted, belated, blinded, blindfolded, hoodwinked, misinformed, au bout de son latin, at the end of his tether, at fault, at sea, caught tripping, unknown, unapprehended, unexplained, unascertained, uninvestigated, unexplored, unheard of, not perceived, concealed, novel, ignorantly, unawares, for anything, for aught one knows, not that one knows, Int, God knows, Heaven knows, the Lord knows, who knows, nobody knows, ignorance never settles a question, quantum animis erroris inest!, small Latin and less Greek, that unlettered small-knowing soul, there is no darkness but ignorance.