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One half-conscious thought was burned in my mind: stay on your feet.
Gene Tunney

Meaning of "half-conscious" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HALF-CONSCIOUS

half-conscious play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HALF-CONSCIOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Half-Conscious is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES HALF-CONSCIOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of half-conscious in the English dictionary

The definition of half-conscious in the dictionary is only partially alert and awake.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HALF-CONSCIOUS

half-caste
half-centuries
half-century
half-circle
half-clad
half-closed
half-cock
half-cocked
half-completed
half-concealed
half-convinced
half-cooked
half-covered
half-crazy
half-crown
half-cup bra
half-cut
half-day
half-dazed
half-dead

WORDS THAT END LIKE HALF-CONSCIOUS

atrocious
audacious
auspicious
bootylicious
conscious
delicious
ferocious
gracious
luscious
malicious
precious
previous
self-conscious
spacious
specious
subconscious
suspicious
tenacious
unconscious
vicious
voracious

Synonyms and antonyms of half-conscious in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «half-conscious» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HALF-CONSCIOUS

Find out the translation of half-conscious to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of half-conscious from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «half-conscious» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

半昏迷
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

semiconsciente
570 millions of speakers

English

half-conscious
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आधा जागरूक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

نصف واعية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

полубессознательном
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

semiconsciente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অর্ধ-সচেতন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

demi- conscient
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Setengah sadar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

halb bei Bewusstsein
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ハーフを意識
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

반 의식
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Setengah sadar
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

một nửa có ý thức
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அரை உணர்வு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अर्धवट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yarı baygın
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

semicosciente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

półprzytomny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

напівнепритомному
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

- jumătate conștient
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ημι- συνειδητή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

half- bewuste
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

halvmedvetna
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

halvbevisste
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of half-conscious

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HALF-CONSCIOUS»

The term «half-conscious» is normally little used and occupies the 119.191 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HALF-CONSCIOUS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about half-conscious

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2 QUOTES WITH «HALF-CONSCIOUS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word half-conscious.
1
John Jeremiah Sullivan
There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In fact it's the only place where you even are a writer.
2
Gene Tunney
One half-conscious thought was burned in my mind: stay on your feet.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HALF-CONSCIOUS»

Discover the use of half-conscious in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to half-conscious and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader
whether it is happy or otherwise: but the half-conscious soul is chastised where it is not deserving of it, and goes unchastised where it is richly deserving of it - and so has no happiness, but instead, unhappiness. “Woe to the half-conscious soul  ...
Mary MacLane, Michael R. Brown, Bojana Novakovic, 2011
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Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal
... faith becomes unbounded ; the confident belief that certain actions will inevitably ensue, leads to their performance ; half, and only half conscious, the patient obeys the presumed will of his magnetizer, and deems himself the while a passive ...
‎1845
3
Marriage, Writing, and Romanticism: Wordsworth and Austen ...
1805 Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze That blows from the green fields and from the clouds And from the sky: it beats against my cheek And seems half conscious of the joy it gives. 0 welcome Messenger! O welcome Friend! A Captive ...
Eric C. Walker, 2009
4
Romanticism and Religion from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens
In both, the wind is presented as a beneficent and restorative agency, whose actions are personified or animated (the breeze in Wordsworth's poem is said to ' seem half-conscious', the gales in Gray's poem are described as 'waving fresh their ...
Dr Gavin Hopps, Dr Jane Stabler, 2013
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Our Beautiful, Dry, and Distant Texts: Art History as Writing
Half-conscious. Themes. The two sexes offer an interesting analogy to this kind of polarity. Like the North/South conflict, sexes are a dichotomy that appears to be closed: we cannot think of a third sex whose characteristics are not borrowed ...
James Elkins, 2010
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Visions: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1930-1934 by C.G. Jung
You know when you have undergone the onslaught of a powerful emotion, you are left dazed or only half conscious. Why is that so? Mrs. Fierz: It is a lack of energy. Dr. Jung: Partially that, because a great deal of energy has been wasted, but ...
Carl Gustav Jung, Claire Douglas, Mary Foote, 1997
7
Antz the Saga:
'The half-conscious state releases it.' Madame Beauchart said in awe. 'When the two halves of the brain are both working.' 'Yes,' Alaris agreed, 'and Bellefontaine assures me that the same half-conscious state can be achieved medically.
Ronald Wintrick
8
Play Therapy with Adolescents
Yet therapeutic insight may be largely on a “half—conscious,” experiential level for adolescents and adults too, given the ways in which personally salient experiences are usually processed. Turning now to consciousness, the mind is ...
Loretta Gallo-Lopez, Charles E. Schaefer, 2010
9
The Radical
Then, anon, The old, half-conscious nightmare stole athwart me. Ocean I peopled : from its cells of ooze, Crawling in weird, gigantic nondescripts, In every one of which I crawled half conscious. They were myself In grotesque metamorphoses.
Sidney H. Morse, Joseph B. Marvin, 1869
10
Clouds
Of course, to someone else, perhaps I seem only half-conscious, as a kind of insensitive cretin who's capable of registering only a fraction of what he is looking at or thinking about or listening to or feeling, which is true enough, although ...
William Lynch, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HALF-CONSCIOUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term half-conscious is used in the context of the following news items.
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UFC Fight Night 71 complete fighter breakdowns, Frank Mir and …
Despite being half-conscious, Mir then countered Nogueira's famed sit-out with a kimura. Once Mir locked in the grip, he ignored his opponent's ... «MMAmania.com, Jul 15»
2
Doodle doodle do
Ruth Rostron, the institute's professional handwriting analyst, said: “We're usually only half-conscious of what we're drawing – which means ... «Times of Malta, Jul 15»
3
Woman in Makati hit by van
The report further reavealed that "the victim, who was bloodied on the right side of her head, lay half-conscious on the rain-drenched asphalt ... «Coconuts Manila, Jul 15»
4
'Call center employee' hurt in Makati road mishap
The victim, who was bloodied on the right side of her head, lay half-conscious on the rain-drenched asphalt road for 15 to 20 minutes before an ... «Inquirer.net, Jul 15»
5
'The Girl Who Knew Too Much' Will Please Fans of Agatha Christie
... discovered lying half-conscious on the ground, the doctors simply dismiss Nora as a naive foreigner who reads too many mystery novels. «PopMatters, Jul 15»
6
Migrant boat capsizes in the Aegean Sea killing Turkish captain
The incident was discovered after nine hours when a Turkish yacht stumbled across half-conscious immigrants off the coast and notified the ... «Daily Sabah, Jun 15»
7
I Took a "Sound Bath" and May Have Been Brainwashed
We stayed there for what I'm guessing was about an hour, during which I fell into a sort of half-conscious twilight sleep. It had been a stressful ... «Elle.com, Jun 15»
8
Why sound beats image when it comes to memory
It's perfect listening for dropping off to (it's on air at 11 p.m.), as their random thoughts become trapped in a web of half-conscious thoughts. «Spectator.co.uk, Jun 15»
9
Wee Ginger Dug: Bad Vow disease is fatal to the Union
... the decaying spinal cord to the spongiform half-conscious brain. Westminster can't say it wasn't warned, Bad Vow Disease is invariably fatal. «The National, Jun 15»
10
Book vs. Movie: Far From the Madding Crowd
“What I meant to tell you was only this,” she said eagerly, and yet half-conscious of the absurdity of the position she had made for herself: “that ... «OUPblog, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Half-Conscious [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/half-conscious>. Apr 2024 ».
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