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scour collapse: a place that is scoured (especially by running water); rub hard or scrub; "scour the counter tops"; examine minutely; "The police scoured the country for the fugitive"

otiose collapse: serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being; "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"

unfamiliarity collapse: unusualness as a consequence of not being well known

insignificant collapse: not large enough to consider or notice; not worthy of notice; of little importance or influence or power; of minor status; "a minor, insignificant bureaucrat"; "peanut politicians"; signifying nothing; "insignificant sounds"; "his response...is picayune and unmeaning"- R.B. Pearsall; not important or noteworthy

customary collapse: in accordance with convention or custom; "sealed the deal with the customary handshake"

bloodthirsty collapse: marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed; "bloody-minded tyrants"; "bloodthirsty yells"; "went after the collaborators with a sanguinary fury that drenched the land with blood"-G.W.Johnson

unschooled collapse: lacking in schooling; "untaught people whose verbal skills are grossly deficient"; "an untutored genius"; "uneducated children"

resourceful collapse: having inner resources; adroit or imaginative; "someone who is resourceful is capable of dealing with difficult situations"; "an able and resourceful politician"; "the most resourceful cook in town"

traditional collapse: consisting of or derived from tradition; "traditional history"; "traditional morality"; pertaining to time-honored orthodox doctrines; "the simple security of traditional assumptions has vanished"

poor collapse: unsatisfactory; "a poor light for reading"; "poor morale"; "expectations were poor"; having little money or few possessions; "deplored the gap between rich and poor countries"; "the proverbial poor artist living in a garret"; lacking in specific resources, qualities or substances; "a poor land"; "the area was poor in timber and coal"; "food poor in nutritive value"; characterized by or indicating poverty; "the country had a poor economy"; "they lived in the poor section of town"

autocratic collapse: offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power; "an autocratic person"; "autocratic behavior"; "a bossy way of ordering others around"; "a rather aggressive and dominating character"; "managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way"; "a swaggering peremptory manner"

ineffective collapse: lacking the ability or skill to perform effectively; inadequate; "an ineffective administration"; "inefficient workers"; not producing an intended effect; "an ineffective teacher"; "ineffective legislation"; lacking in power or forcefulness; "an ineffectual ruler"; "like an unable phoenix in hot ashes"

adaptable collapse: capable of adapting (of becoming or being made suitable) to a particular situation or use; "to succeed one must be adaptable"; "the frame was adaptable to cloth bolts of different widths"

harebrained collapse: very foolish; "harebrained ideas"; "took insane risks behind the wheel"; "a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains"

hysteron proteron collapse: the logical fallacy of using as a true premise a proposition that is yet to be proved; reversal of normal order of two words or sentences etc. (as in `bred and born')

missing collapse: not able to be found; "missing in action"; "a missing person"

unload collapse: take the load off (a container or vehicle); "unload the truck"; "offload the van"

specious collapse: plausible but false; "a specious claim"; "spurious inferences"

dumb collapse: unable to speak because of hereditary deafness; lacking the power of human speech; "dumb animals"

aristocratic collapse: belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy; "an aristocratic family"; "aristocratic Bostonians"; "aristocratic government"; "a blue family"; "blue blood"; "the blue-blooded aristocracy"; "of gentle blood"; "patrician landholders of the American South"; "aristocratic bearing"; "aristocratic features"; "patrician tastes"

volatility collapse: the trait of being unpredictably irresolute; "the volatility of the market drove many investors away"; the property of changing readily from a solid or liquid to a vapor

nullity collapse: something that is null (especially an enactment that has no legal validity)

privation collapse: act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights"; a state of extreme poverty

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