gormless

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈɡɔːmləs/   

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Lacking intelligence, sense or understanding; foolish. Commonwealth,Ireland,UK
    — Did I ever look so stupid: so gormless as Joseph calls it?

词形变化

more gormless comparative most gormless superlative gaumless alternative gawmless alternative

词源

From dialectal English gaum (“heed, attention”) + -less (“without”), from Old Norse gaum, from Proto-Germanic *gaumaz, *gaumō (“heed, attention”). The ‘r’ found in this spelling is a vowel-lengthening device common in non-rhotic dialects of English.
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