Unscramble

g 2 o 1 r 1 m 3 l 1 e 1 s 1 s 1

8 letters · 11 points in Scrabble

Meaning

adjective (British informal) lacking intelligence and vitality

originFrom 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.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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