Hypertext Webster Gateway: "unconscious"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Unconscious \Un*con"scious\, a.
1. Not conscious; having no consciousness or power of mental
perception; without cerebral appreciation; hence, not
knowing or regarding; ignorant; as, an unconscious man.
--Cowper.
2. Not known or apprehended by consciousness; as, an
unconscious cerebration. ``Unconscious causes.''
--Blackmore.
3. Having no knowledge by experience; -- followed by of; as,
a mule unconscious of the yoke. --Pope. --
{Un*con"scious-ly}, adv. -- {Un*con"scious*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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}]
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