gormless
/ˈɡɔːmləs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.87 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Did I ever look so stupid: so gormless as Joseph calls it?"
- "But Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood were both so gormless and so wrapped up in their own silly little lives that they failed to notice anything unusual about their daughter."
- "There was a sort of gormless unstoppability about him that she found rather fascinating."
- "Hmm. Made an excuse, did he? Not as gormless as he looks in press photographs, then."
- "“Don’t just stand there looking gormless. There’s plenty of work to do in the back.”"
- "Damon’s Odysseus is motivated mostly by anxiety and guilt, though he is also eager to protect his boy (Holland is good at playing a gormless young man of twenty going on twelve)."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈɡɔːmləs/
Usage
- British usage
Inflected Forms
more gormless (comparative)
most gormless (superlative)
gaumless (alternative)
gawmless (alternative)