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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
gormless
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a grinning, gormless boy
▪ He just sat there with his mouth open looking really gormless.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And at heart Big Bruv is an improvised soap, a slightly less gormless version of Neighbours.
▪ He was gormless, spoke in a funny nasal accent and looked as if he could do with a kick up the backside.
▪ She was lolling in bed, her mouth wet and slack like a gormless child's.
▪ There he was, that gormless face, crushed in amongst other gormless faces.
▪ They might be big and slow but there was a sort of gormless unstoppability about them.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
gormless

c.1746, "wanting sense," a British dialectal word, from gome "notice, understanding" (c.1200), from Old Norse gaumr "care, heed," of unknown origin; + -less.

Wiktionary
gormless

a. (context chiefly UK of a person English) Lacking intelligence, sense or understanding; foolish.

WordNet
gormless

adj. British informal [syn: gaumless]

Usage examples of "gormless".

And, although I fetched the lad a clout, I don't see as how you can blame him, for, let alone he's a gormless chawbacon, you couldn't hardly expect him to start argufying with Mr Torquil.

Stir yourself, Barwick, you gormless protozoid, stoke up the fire, get me a drink, make toast or something.

His gormless face was turned towards Lobelia, who was caught by the camera as she handed Eric a digestive biscuit and a steaming mug.

There was a sort of gormless unstoppability about him that she found rather fascinating.