Unconscious
WordNet
adjective
(1) Not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead
"Lay unconscious on the floor"
(2) Without conscious volition
noun
(3) That part of the mind wherein psychic activity takes place of which the person is unaware
WiktionaryText
Adjective
- not conscious
- engaged in skilled performance without conscious control.
- 1998, Charles Rosen, The Cockroach Basketball League, page 144
- Sam is unconscious, filling it, drilling it from every conceivable angle. Lem is awful and Cooper seems confused. Josh shoots too often.
- 1999, Joseph Leininger, Terry Whalin, Lessons from the Pit: A Successful Veteran of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, page 10
- "I was unconscious," the basketball player gushes. "It seemed like everything I threw up toward the basket went straight in."
- 2002, Alexander Wolff, Big Game, Small World: A Basketball Adventure, page 292
- Someone who has reeled off a string of baskets will say, "I was unconscious," as if he were following the Zen injunction to be mindful while suspending thought.
- 1998, Charles Rosen, The Cockroach Basketball League, page 144