semiconscious

IPA: sɛmikˈɑnʃʌs

Neither fully conscious nor unconscious, partially aware but confused or distracted.

Examples of "semiconscious" in Sentences

Is it a semiconscious daze that is halfway between sleeping and waking?
Two of the semiconscious bodies were Ferengi, and the other was Klingon.
The worst off was Sister Muriel, a seventy-year-old Protestant missionary who was lying semiconscious on her side on the floor.
Unconscious and semi-unconscious partygoers were scattered throughout the home, and one man was found engaging in a sexual act with a semiconscious female, who was later determined to be his girlfriend, police said.
In many countries you are likely to have to pay bribes not to be arrested, and in the case of a scuffle their attitude is usually baton/pistolwhip both people until semiconscious, drag to custody, THEN ask questions.
The man, who was identified as Vangelis Kapatos, landed on his back and was found semiconscious by officers responding to a 911 call from a parking-garage attendant who witnessed the fall in front of a building on West 45th Street in Hell's Kitchen.
So there I was, driving the Hawk down Ibn Gvirol street, a semiconscious fireman in the passenger seat and a rather too conscious one somewhere in the back, where I couldn't see him because the right-wing mirror had just been broken by a flying bicycle, rider included.
I suspect that a lot of this is because my brain confabulates details in that semiconscious stage just before waking, patching in cause and effect and rationalizations to explain just why I and the cast of Firefly are on a mission to replace the Pope with a robot double.