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unconscious adjective [ ʌnˈkɒnʃəs ]

• not awake and aware of and responding to one's environment.
• "the boy was beaten unconscious"
Similar: knocked out, insensible, senseless, insentient, insensate, passed out, comatose, in a coma, inert, stunned, dazed, stupefied, torpid, befuddled, benumbed, numb, collapsed, keeled over, motionless, immobile, prostrate, out cold, out for the count, blacked out, KO'd, kayoed, out like a light, laid out, flaked out, out, dead to the world, spark out, soporose, soporous,
Opposite: conscious,
• done or existing without one realizing.
• "he would wipe back his hair in an unconscious gesture of annoyance"
Similar: unintentional, unintended, accidental, unthinking, unwitting, inadvertent, unpremeditated, unplanned, uncalculating, chance, natural, innate, inherent, unlearned, instinctive, automatic, mechanical, reflex, involuntary, knee-jerk, uncontrolled, spontaneous, subliminal, subconscious, latent, suppressed, sleeping, deep, gut, bottled up,
Opposite: intentional, voluntary, forced,

unconscious noun

• the part of the mind which is inaccessible to the conscious mind but which affects behaviour and emotions.
• "horrific apparitions surfaced out of the recesses of his unconscious"
Similar: subconscious mind, subconscious, unconscious mind, psyche, ego, superego, id, inner self, innermost self, self, inner man/woman,
Opposite: conscious mind,


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