INCONSCIENT Synonyms: 44 Similar and Opposite Words

inconscient

adjective

Definition of inconscient

as in inattentive

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Adjective

By the same token, French-style discretion can be interpreted by American visitors as inattentive and rude.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2026
Watts was largely inattentive in those vulnerable moments, Anna says.

— Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 20 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

According to the academic, that structure gave progressive digital activism a level of coordination that had been absent even during Lula’s successful campaign in 2022.

— Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 2 Nov. 2026
As that plays out, the Kennedy Center has closed with its stages absent of performances for months.

— Hillel Italie, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of absent

Adjective

In the year 2024/25, nearly 10% of teaching hours in public secondary education went untaught, according to data from the education ministry.

— Will Barker, TheWeek, 5 Oct. 2026
By the early sixties, the romance of the untaught or naïve artist was really catching.

— Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of untaught

Adjective

The deployment of cringe might seems like a ridiculous, even unconscious, exercise by an administration that – as with the five-day tenure of former press secretary Katie Zacharia shows – regularly exposes itself to derision and satire.

— Matthew N. Hannah, The Conversation, 30 Oct. 2026
Officers reported with paramedics to the actor’s home for a report of an unconscious man who was not breathing.

— Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026

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