Englishunconscious
adjective
1 to make sure he stayed unconscious she hit him twice over the head:
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;
informal out cold, out for the count, blacked out, KO'd, kayoed, out like a light, laid out, flaked out, out, dead to the world;
British, informal spark out;
rare soporose, soporous.
▷antonyms conscious.
2 she concealed herself in the nettles, unconscious of the pain:
heedless, unheeding, unmindful, disregardful, disregarding, taking no notice;
oblivious to, insensible to, blind to, deaf to, impervious to, unaffected by, unconcerned by, indifferent to, detached from, removed from;
unaware, ignorant, in ignorance, unknowing, unsuspecting, unenlightened;
informal in the dark;
rare incognizant, nescient.
▷antonyms conscious, aware.
3 an unconscious desire for recognition:
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;
informal gut, bottled up.
▷antonyms intentional, voluntary; forced.