Usually means: Lacking intelligence, common sense, clueless.
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  1. gormless: Merriam-Webster
  2. gormless: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gormless: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gormless: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gormless: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gormless, gormless: Wordnik
  7. gormless: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gormless: Wiktionary
  9. gormless: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gormless: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. gormless: Dictionary.com
  12. Gormless: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. gormless: Rhymezone
  14. gormless: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. gormless: FreeDictionary.org
  16. gormless: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. gormless: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. gormless: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. Gormless: World Wide Words
  20. gormless: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  21. gormless: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gormless: A Word A Day
  2. gormless: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. gormless: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

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adjective:  (chiefly UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, of a person) Lacking intelligence, sense or understanding; foolish.

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