inconscient

adjective

Definition of inconscientnext
as in inattentive

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inconscient
  1. inattentive
  2. heedless
  3. abstracted
  4. absent
  5. absentminded
  6. untaught
  7. unconscious
Adjective
  • Leap Year is primarily a showcase for high heels worn in improbable situations, like trudging through the muddy, hilly Irish countryside, where Adams gets waylaid en route to propose to her inattentive boyfriend (Adam Scott).
    Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
  • The results, published this week in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, says that lead exposure from car exhaust during children’s early development has made generations of Americans more depressed, anxious, inattentive and hyperactive.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of inattentive
Adjective
  • The gunman raised the weapon, heedless of a woman standing nearby on the sidewalk.
    Maria Cramer, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Phishing sites are fraudulent pages that ape secure sites and try to fool heedless visitors into giving away their credentials.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 27 Nov. 2024
Definition of heedless
Adjective
  • The show’s overall environment was more akin to an abstracted living room than a standard runway setup.
    Lauren Vaccaro, Architectural Digest, 28 Nov. 2024
  • Larry Aldrich, the museum’s founder, visited Diamond’s studio in 1972 and subsequently acquired Untitled (1972), one of her early abstracted landscapes, and put it in a group show—marking her first museum acquisition and exhibition.
    Grace Edquist, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of abstracted
Adjective
  • With Manchin absent in the Senate, and the vote tied at 49-49, a potential tie-breaking vote from Vice President Harris was possible.
    Axios, Axios, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Carven had been absent from the runways and without a marquee designer for several years.
    Luisa Zargani, WWD, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of absent
Adjective
  • That rule is forgiving to absent-minded voters, but slows tallying because those ballots still need to go through signature checks and other processes.
    Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Colleagues described him as an absent-minded professor type.
    Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of absentminded
Adjective
  • Still, with this inspirational true story, the streamer stands to reach a much wider public than Perry’s typical audience, reminding how much of American history remains untaught and largely untold.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Until recent years, the story of how this period affected California’s Indigenous peoples had largely gone untaught or underrecognized.
    Anne Wallentine, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2024
Definition of untaught
Adjective
  • To take it a step further, Mars will station retrograde in Leo on Dec. 6 — shaking up your 12th house of closure, healing and unconscious patterns — which is also an invitation to reconsider how your residual energies in your subconscious influence your love life.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Her steering wheel, bent and broken, could indicate that Silkwood braced her arms as the impact occurred -- inconsistent with someone being unconscious at the time.
    Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of unconscious
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