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shrug collapse: a gesture involving the shoulders; raise one's shoulders to indicate indifference or resignation

insular collapse: narrowly restricted in outlook or scope; "little sympathy with parochial mentality"; "insular attitudes toward foreigners"; suggestive of the isolated life of an island; "an exceedingly insular man; so deeply private as to seem inaccessible to the scrutiny of a novelist"- Leonard Michaels; relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island; "insular territories"; "Hawaii's insular culture"

authoritarian collapse: a person who behaves in an tyrannical manner; "my boss is a dictator who makes everyone work overtime"; characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty; "an authoritarian regime"; "autocratic government"; "despotic rulers"; "a dictatorial rule that lasted for the duration of the war"; "a tyrannical government"; expecting unquestioning obedience; "he was imperious and dictatorial"; "the timid child of authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter"; likened to a dictator in severity

unaware collapse: (often followed by `of') not aware; "seemed unaware of the scrutiny"; "unaware of the danger they were in"; "unaware of the newborn hope"; "the most unaware person I've known"

unwitting collapse: not aware or knowing; "an unwitting subject in an experiment"

cramped collapse: constricted in size; "cramped quarters"; "trying to bring children up in cramped high-rise apartments"

petty collapse: contemptibly narrow in outlook; "petty little comments"; "disgusted with their small-minded pettiness"

unconscious collapse: not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead; "lay unconscious on the floor"; without conscious volition

disobedient collapse: not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority; "disobedient children"; unwilling to submit to authority; "unruly teenagers"

unsuspecting collapse: (often followed by `of') not knowing or expecting; not thinking likely; "an unsuspecting victim"; "unsuspecting (or unaware) of the fact that I would one day be their leader"; not suspicious; "deceiving the unsuspecting public"

heedless collapse: characterized by careless unconcern; "the heedless generosity and the spasmodic extravagance of persons used to large fortunes"- Edith Wharton; "reckless squandering of public funds"; marked by or paying little heed or attention; "We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics"--Franklin D. Roosevelt; "heedless of danger"; "heedless of the child's crying"

stuffy collapse: affected with a sensation of stoppage or obstruction; "a stuffy feeling in my chest"

unmindful collapse: not mindful or attentive; "while thus unmindful of his steps he stumbled"- G.B.Shaw

napping collapse: not prepared or vigilant; "the blow caught him napping"; "caught in an off-guard moment"; "found him off his guard"

dogmatic collapse: characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles; relating to or involving dogma; "dogmatic writings"; of or pertaining to or characteristic of a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative

gesture collapse: motion of hands or body to emphasize or help to express a thought or feeling; something done as an indication of intention; "a political gesture"; "a gesture of defiance"; the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals

small collapse: a garment size for a small person; the slender part of the back; limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a little dining room"; "a little house"; "a small car"; "a little (or small) group"; have fine or very small constituent particles; "a small misty rain"; on a small scale; "think small"

asleep collapse: into a sleeping state; "he fell asleep"; in the sleep of death

little collapse: a small amount or duration; "he accepted the little they gave him"; small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context); "a nice little job"; "bless your little heart"; "my dear little mother"; "a sweet little deal"; "I'm tired of your petty little schemes"; "filthy little tricks"; "what a nasty little situation"; (of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice"; lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters"; (of children and animals) young, immature; "what a big little boy you are"; "small children"; not much; "he talked little about his family"

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