How do you use Gormless in a sentence? See 6 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like stupid, plus the exact meaning.
Gormless in a sentence
Gormless meaning
Lacking intelligence, sense or understanding; foolish.
Synonyms of Gormless
Using Gormless
- The main meaning on this page is: Lacking intelligence, sense or understanding; foolish.
- Useful related words include: gaumless, stupid.
- In the example corpus, gormless often appears in combinations such as: and gormless, gormless face.
Context around Gormless
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 1 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Gormless
- In this selection, "gormless" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, weird, definitely, face, grin and white stand out and add context to how "gormless" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a very gormless character and and debate and gormless white and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "gormless" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aage and aardvarks, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with gormless
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Stef is definitely gormless as demonstrated on January 14, 2005. citation. (11 words)
Ragetti is a very gormless character and that is how he ends up with a fork stuck in his eye. (20 words)
Followed by furious public debate and gormless white and brown racial posturing all when we needed Joe and Josephine Public to focus on washing their hands. (26 words)
There are some instantly recognizable J6 insurrectionists who aren’t Proud Boys or Oath Keepers—think that jabroni in the viking hatConfederate Flag toter,lectern-purloining weirdo with the gormless grin. (31 words)
If the chipped-off ear and gormless face wasn’t enough, it turned out pouring the boiling water out of his mouth made him look like he was projectile vomiting. (30 words)
Followed by furious public debate and gormless white and brown racial posturing all when we needed Joe and Josephine Public to focus on washing their hands. (26 words)
Example sentences (6)
There are some instantly recognizable J6 insurrectionists who aren’t Proud Boys or Oath Keepers—think that jabroni in the viking hatConfederate Flag toter,lectern-purloining weirdo with the gormless grin.
If the chipped-off ear and gormless face wasn’t enough, it turned out pouring the boiling water out of his mouth made him look like he was projectile vomiting.
Followed by furious public debate and gormless white and brown racial posturing all when we needed Joe and Josephine Public to focus on washing their hands.
Ragetti is a very gormless character and that is how he ends up with a fork stuck in his eye.
Casting Linehan and Mathews saw O'Hanlon in a modernised Shakespeare play broadcast by RTÉ, and were impressed by the "weird, gormless" face he could pull.
Stef is definitely gormless as demonstrated on January 14, 2005. citation.
Common combinations with gormless
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: