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gumptionless

adj

Etymology

From gumption + -less.

  1. derived from *gaumō✻
  2. borrowed from gumption — “common sense, shrewdness; drive, initiative”
  3. suffixed as gumptionless — “gumption + less”

Definitions

  1. Lacking gumption.

    • But I am no gumptionless Eve, that he should beguile me.
    • No actress that I know can so mingle dewy pathos and the salt of sanity: yet she must forego these in favour of gumptionless Dianas.
    • You're the most gumptionless person on earth.

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