unconscious.

1. Not in a state of wakeful awareness of one’s surroundings.

2. Not aware of a fact, process or influence, including something done without conscious intention.

3. Mental processes or contents outside conscious awareness, considered collectively.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• unconscious patient
• become unconscious

On the page

The patient was unconscious when the rescue team arrived, but the account did not describe the condition as death.

The character became unconscious before she could explain what she had observed.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror / sci-fi / gothic. Forms: Ordinarily non-gradable for the stated categorical condition; qualify clinical state only where the description permits it. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: hazard description, speculative setting, bodily condition, scene explanation. Disciplines: genre writing, science-informed description, clinical and safety vocabulary. Commonness: moderately common.