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unconscious
English
Etymology
un- +? conscious
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??n?k?n??s/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??n?k?n??s/
- Hyphenation: un?con?scious
Adjective
unconscious (comparative more unconscious, superlative most unconscious)
- Not awake; having no awareness.
- After the anesthetist administered the general anesthetic the patient was unconscious.
- Without directed thought or awareness.
- My sudden fright was an unconscious response.
- 1884, Margaret Oliphant, The Wizard's Son
- It was intolerable, he felt, to sit and eat in presence of that silent figure partly turned away from him, jotting down the different amounts on a bit of paper, and absorbed in that occupation as if unconscious of his presence.
- (sports) engaged in skilled performance without conscious control.
- 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."
- 1999, Joseph Leininger, Terry Whalin, Lessons from the Pit: A Successful Veteran of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, page 10
Synonyms
- (not awake; having no awareness): insentient, oblivious, out of it, out on one's feet, unaware, down for the count, lost to the world
- (skilled performance without conscious control): in the zone, on a roll
Translations
Noun
unconscious (plural unconsciouses)
- (psychology) Unconscious mind
Derived terms
- collective unconscious
Translations
Further reading
- "unconscious" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 320.
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rumdum
English
Pronunciation
Noun
rumdum (plural rumdums)
- (slang) An habitual drunkard; a stupid person.
- 1992, Stephen King, Gerald's Game, New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Viking, page 142.
- When a fellow comes into the kitchen to freshen his drink and finds the rumdum from up the road with one hand on his wife's behind and the other down the front of her
- 1992, Stephen King, Gerald's Game, New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Viking, page 142.
- A cocktail made from rum, applejack and lime juice.
Adjective
rumdum
- (slang) Dulled or incapacitated by alcohol; unconscious; stupid.
- He was rumdum from beer and pills.
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Alternative forms
- girumdum
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rum.?dum/
Verb
rumdum
- to remember
- Antonym: lingaw
Icelandic
Verb
rumdum (weak)
- first-person plural past indicative of rymja
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