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awkward collapse: not at ease socially; unsure and constrained in manner; "awkward and reserved at parties"; "ill at ease among eddies of people he didn't know"; "was always uneasy with strangers"; causing inconvenience; "they arrived at an awkward time"; hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment; "awkward (or embarrassing or difficult) moments in the discussion"; "an awkward pause followed his remark"; "a sticky question"; "in the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the campaign"; not elegant or graceful in expression; "an awkward prose style"; "a clumsy apology"; "his cumbersome writing style"; "if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?"; lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance; "an awkward dancer"; "an awkward gesture"; "too awkward with a needle to make her own clothes"; "his clumsy fingers produced an awkward knot"; difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape; "an awkward bundle to carry"; "a load of bunglesome paraphernalia"; "clumsy wooden shoes"; "the cello, a rather ungainly instrument for a girl"

uninstructed collapse: lacking information or instruction; "lamentably unenlightened as to the laws"

emptiness collapse: having an empty stomach; the state of containing nothing

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

hungry collapse: feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food; "a world full of hungry people"

light year collapse: the distance that light travels in a vacuum in 1 year; 5.88 trillion miles or 9.46 trillion kilometers

glassy collapse: (used of eyes) lacking liveliness; "empty eyes"; "a glassy stare"; "his eyes were glazed over with boredom"; (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it; "glazed pottery"; "glassy porcelain"; "hard vitreous china used for plumbing fixtures"; resembling glass in smoothness and shininess and slickness; "the glassy surface of the lake"; "the pavement was...glassy with water"- Willa Cather

leash collapse: restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal

empty collapse: a container that has been emptied; "return all empties to the store"; holding or containing nothing; "an empty glass"; "an empty room"; "full of empty seats"; "empty hours"; emptied of emotion; "after the violent argument he felt empty"; needing nourishment; "after skipped lunch the men were empty by suppertime"; "empty-bellied children"; devoid of significance or point; "empty promises"; "a hollow victory"; "vacuous comments"; having nothing inside; "an empty sphere"; become empty or void of its content; "The room emptied"; make void or empty of contents; "Empty the box"; "The alarm emptied the building"; remove; "Empty the water"

illiterate collapse: a person unable to read; lacking culture, especially in language and literature; not able to read or write

inexperience collapse: lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience; "procedural inexperience created difficulties"; "their poor behavior was due to the rawness of the troops"

disingenuous collapse: not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness; "an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time"- David Cannadine; "a disingenuous excuse"

graduation collapse: the successful completion of a program of study; a line (as on a vessel or ruler) that marks a measurement; "the ruler had 16 graduations per inch"

dimension collapse: the magnitude of something in a particular direction (especially length or width or height); one of three Cartesian coordinates that determine a position in space; shape or form to required dimensions; indicate the dimensions on; "These techniques permit us to dimension the human heart"

hollow collapse: a small valley between mountains; "he built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Appalachians"; a cavity or space in something; "hunger had caused the hollows in their cheeks"; as if echoing in a hollow space; "the hollow sound of footsteps in the empty ballroom"; not solid; having a space or gap or cavity; "a hollow wall"; "a hollow tree"; "hollow cheeks"; "his face became gaunter and more hollow with each year"; remove the interior of; "hollow out a tree trunk"

plausible collapse: apparently reasonable and valid, and truthful; "a plausible excuse"; given to or characterized by presenting specious arguments; "a plausible liar"

honorific collapse: an expression of respect; "the Japanese use many honorifics"; conferring or showing honor or respect; "honorific social status commonly attaches to membership in a recognized profession"

notification collapse: a request for payment; "the notification stated the grace period and the penalties for defaulting"

feckless collapse: generally incompetent and ineffectual; "feckless attempts to repair the plumbing"; "inept handling of the account"; not fit to assume responsibility

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