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beardless collapse: lacking hair on the face; "a smooth-faced boy of 14 years"; having no beard

coltish collapse: given to merry frolicking; "frolicsome students celebrated their graduation with parties and practical jokes"

sibilation collapse: pronunciation with a sibilant (hissing or whistling) sound

nasalization collapse: the act of nasalizing; the utterance of sounds modulated by the nasal resonators

reductive collapse: characterized by or causing diminution or curtailment; "their views of life were reductive and depreciabory" - R.H.Rovere

dysphasia collapse: an impairment of language (especially speech production) that is usually due to brain damage

doddering collapse: mentally or physically infirm with age; "his mother was doddering and frail"

infantile collapse: being or befitting or characteristic of an infant; "infantile games"; of or relating to infants or infancy; "infantile paralysis"

boyish collapse: befitting or characteristic of a young boy; "a boyish grin"; "schoolboyish pranks"

girlish collapse: befitting or characteristic of a young girl; "girlish charm"; "a dress too schoolgirlish for office wear"

young collapse: any immature animal; young people collectively; "rock music appeals to the young"; "youth everywhere rises in revolt"; United States religious leader of the Mormon Church after the assassination of Joseph Smith; he led the Mormon exodus from Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah (1801-1877); United States baseball player and famous pitcher (1867-1955); English poet (1683-1765); United States jazz tenor saxophonist (1909-1959); British physicist and Egyptologist; he revived the wave theory of light and proposed a three-component theory of color vision; he also played an important role in deciphering the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone (1773-1829); United States civil rights leader (1921-1971); United States film and television actress (1913-2000); being in its early stage; "a young industry"; "the day is still young"; (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth; "young people"

childlike collapse: befitting a young child; "childlike charm"; exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity; "childlike trust"; "dewy-eyed innocence"; "listened in round-eyed wonder"

unwise collapse: showing or resulting from lack of judgment or wisdom; "an unwise investor is soon impoverished"

falsetto collapse: a male singing voice with artificially high tones in an upper register; artificially high; above the normal voice range; "a falsetto voice"

lisp collapse: a flexible procedure-oriented programing language that manipulates symbols in the form of lists; a speech defect that involves pronouncing `s' like voiceless `th' and `z' like voiced `th'; speak with a lisp

decrepit collapse: lacking physical strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless"

characterless collapse: lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting; "women dressed in nondescript clothes"; "a nondescript novel"

tremor collapse: an involuntary vibration (as if from illness or fear); a small earthquake; shaking or trembling (usually resulting from weakness or stress or disease); shake with seismic vibrations; "The earth was quaking"

twang collapse: exaggerated nasality in speech (as in some regional dialects); a sharp vibrating sound (as of a plucked string); pronounce with a nasal twang; pluck (strings of an instrument); "He twanged his bow"; twitch or throb with pain; sound with a twang; "the bowstring was twanging"; cause to sound with a twang; "He twanged the guitar string"

immature collapse: lacking in development; "immature plans"; "an unformed character"; not yet mature; characteristic of a lack of maturity; "immature behavior"

frivolous collapse: not serious in content or attitude or behavior; "a frivolous novel"; "a frivolous remark"; "a frivolous young woman"

absurd collapse: a situation in which life seems irrational and meaningless; "The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth"--Albert Camus; inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense; "the absurd predicament of seeming to argue that virtue is highly desirable but intensely unpleasant"- Walter Lippman; incongruous;inviting ridicule; "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed idea"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"; "a contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history"; "her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous"

juvenile collapse: a youthful person; of or relating to or characteristic of or appropriate for children or young people; "juvenile diabetes"; "juvenile fashions"

hiss collapse: a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval); "the performers could not be heard over the hissing of the audience"; make a sharp hissing sound, as if to show disapproval; express or utter with a hiss; move with a whooshing sound

croak collapse: a harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog); utter a hoarse sound, like a raven

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