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Formless vs Gormless - What's the difference?

formless | gormless |

As adjectives the difference between formless and gormless

is that formless is without form; shapeless while gormless is lacking intelligence, sense or understanding; foolish.

formless

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Without form; shapeless.
  • * 1985': Now the earth was a '''formless void, there was darkness over the deep, with a divine wind sweeping over the waters. — Genesis 1:2 (''New Jerusalem Bible )

    • Synonyms

    * shapeless * amorphous

    gormless

    English

    Alternative forms

    * gaumless, gawmless

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (chiefly, UK, of a person) Lacking intelligence, sense or understanding; foolish.
  • *
    • Did I ever look so stupid: so gormless as Joseph calls it?
  • * 1988 , , page 4:
    • 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.
  • * 1990 , , page 171:
    • There was a sort of gormless unstoppability about him that she found rather fascinating.
  • * , chapter 8, The Wedding, Auntie Muriel , page 141:
    • “Hmm. Made an excuse, did he? Not as gormless as he looks in press photographs, then. […]”

    Synonyms

    * (lacking intelligence) dull, slow, stupid; inexperienced, naive

    Derived terms

    * gormlessly, gormlessness