gayless en · ADJ
Etymology
From gay + -less.
Meanings
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Lacking gaiety; gloomy; somber; drab
The brown burnt earth, / Of fruits and flowers and every verdure spoiled; / Barren and bare, a gayless, dreary waste, [...]
1856, R. McCullam, Sketches of the Highlands of Cavan, and of Shirley Castle:She ambled in, wearing a gayless smile.
2011, Scars of a Calabash Misdeed
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Without gay people.
What does she say about Perez's vision of a gayless utopia? The one-line chapter pitting gays with the abject mother of macho dismissal and scorn?
2009, J. Neil C. Garcia, Philippine Gay Culture:I'm a child of the early 1980s and a teenager of the 1990s, and even though TV was beginning to fill with Ellens, Wills, and Jacks, Indiana was still a gayless place.
2014, Melanie E. Brewster, Atheists in America:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most gayless | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more gayless | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Synonyms
dire · bleak · leaden · forlorn · doleful · sad · lack-laughter · comfortless · gloomy · lackluster · colourless · unmerry · faint · joyless · gloomsome · dreary · gray · uncolorful · lugubrious · dreich · wan · uncheery · melancholy · dark · dingy · dismal · woeful · morose · sunless · cheerless · bland · solemn · grim · unholiday · saturnine · dull · unhappy · somber · depressing · dreary · miserable · bleak · dim · mirthless · muddy · dolesome · no joke · disconsolate · wintry · drear · sullen · drearisome · sober · desolate · sombre · spiritless · uncheerful · gayless