unconscious

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unconscious (comparative more unconscious, superlative most unconscious)

Positive
unconscious

Comparative
more unconscious

Superlative
most unconscious

  1. not conscious
  2. (sports) 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.

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the unconscious (singulare tantum)

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