Definition of "gormless"

gormless

/ˈɡɔːmləs/

adjective
comparative more gormless, superlative most gormless
1. (chiefly UK, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, of a person) Lacking intelligence, sense or understanding; foolish.
  Quotations
  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, […]
  But Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood were both so gormless and so wrapped up in their own silly little lives that they failed to notice anything unusual about their daughter.
  1988, Roald Dahl, Matilda, page 4
  There was a sort of gormless unstoppability about him that she found rather fascinating.
  1990, Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures, page 171
  Hmm. Made an excuse, did he? Not as gormless as he looks in press photographs, then.
  2007 July 21, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], “The Wedding, Auntie Muriel”, in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter; 7), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, page 141
  “Don’t just stand there looking gormless. There’s plenty of work to do in the back.”
  2015, Adele Abbott, Witch Is When Everything Went Crazy, page 33