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gaumless

UK/ˈɡɔːm.ləs/

gaumless is the alternative spelling of gormless.

Meaning of gormless

Adjective

gormless (comparative more gormless, superlative most gormless)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK) Lacking intelligence, sense or understanding; foolish.
    • Did I ever look so stupid: so gormless as Joseph calls it?1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter XXI, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC

Words formed from gaumless

Questions about gaumless

What is gaumless the alternative spelling of?
Gaumless is the alternative spelling of gormless.
How do you pronounce gaumless?
Gaumless is pronounced /ˈɡɔːm.ləs/ (UK).

Words near gaumless in the dictionary

  1. gaumed
  2. Gaumer
  3. Gaumers
  4. gauming
  5. gaumish
  6. gaumless
  7. gaumlessness
  8. Gaumond
  9. Gaumonds
  10. gaums
  11. gaumy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gaumless (page history and authors); gormless (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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