INCONSCIENT Synonyms: 44 Similar and Opposite Words

inconscient

adjective

Definition of inconscient

as in inattentive

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Adjective

Watts was largely inattentive in those vulnerable moments, Anna says.

— Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 20 Aug. 2026
The system earned a perfect score for inattentive driving and high-risk driving.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of inattentive

Adjective

Damon’s Odysseus is numbed by the massacre of Troy’s civilians; Fiennes’ hates himself for leading the best men of Ithaca to their death, gutting his own community in the heedless destruction of another.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2026
Later, in Capital, Marx warns that soil depletion caused by the heedless exploitation of nature would threaten the physical foundation of society itself.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 July 2026

Definition of heedless

Adjective

As materials pass through hubs like Singapore, their origins often become increasingly abstracted.

— Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes.com, 19 Mar. 2026
Affecting meaningful change — or suffering from the lack of it — has become so abstracted for the rich and powerful that everything feels like entertainment to them.

— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2025

Definition of abstracted

Adjective

Commissioners Steve Harrelson and Raymond Jarvis were present while Michael White, the chairman, was absent.

— Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 1 Sep. 2026
The effort, which had major bipartisan support, was abandoned in favor of vote pairing, an informal arrangement where an absent lawmaker coordinates with an opposing lawmaker who agrees to abstain or withhold their vote.

— Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of absent

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

When cops arrived there they were told the man was unconscious and unresponsive when he was dumped there.

— Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 25 Aug. 2026
Zach Hickerson has since said Brian Hickerson administered Narcan to Panettiere after the brothers found her unconscious.

— Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 25 Aug. 2026

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