gormless• He just sat there with his mouth open looking really gormless.• a grinning, gormless boy• 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.• He was gormless, spoke in a funnynasalaccent and looked as if he could do with a kick up the backside.• They might be big and slow but there was a sort of gormless unstoppability about them.• And at heart Big Bruv is an improvisedsoap, a slightly less gormlessversion of Neighbours.
Origingormless
(1800-1900)gaumless“lacking understanding”((18-20 centuries)), from gaum“understanding”((18-19 centuries)), from Old Norsegaumr“heed, attention”