- semiconscious
- adjective Date: 1839 incompletely conscious ; imperfectly aware or responsive • semiconsciousness noun
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semiconscious
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Semiconscious — Sem i*con scious, a. Half conscious; imperfectly conscious. De Quincey. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
semiconscious — also semi conscious, 1839, from SEMI (Cf. semi ) + CONSCIOUS (Cf. conscious) … Etymology dictionary
semiconscious — [sem΄i kän′shəs] adj. not fully conscious or awake; half conscious semiconsciousness n … English World dictionary
semiconscious — adjective Neither fully conscious nor unconscious, partially aware but confused or distracted. After being hit on the head he was only semiconscious: he could walk, but he tended to go in circles … Wiktionary
semiconscious — sem|i|con|scious [ ,semi kanʃəs, ,semaı kanʃəs ] adjective someone who is semiconscious is only partly conscious ╾ sem|i|con|scious|ness noun uncount … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
semiconscious — semiconsciously, adv. semiconsciousness, n. /sem ee kon sheuhs, sem uy /, adj. half conscious; not fully conscious. [1830 40; SEMI + CONSCIOUS] * * * … Universalium
semiconscious — SYN: semicomatose. * * * semi·con·scious kän chəs adj incompletely conscious: imperfectly aware or responsive semi·con·scious·ness n … Medical dictionary
semiconscious — Synonyms and related words: asleep, cataleptic, catatonic, cold, comatose, dead, doped, drugged, half conscious, narcotized, nirvanic, oblivious, out, out cold, out of it, senseless, spaced out, stoned, strung out, unconscious, zonked, zonked out … Moby Thesaurus
semiconscious — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. half conscious, half awake, comatose; see asleep , dying 1 … English dictionary for students
semiconscious — adj. partially conscious, not entirely conscious … English contemporary dictionary
