gayless

comparative more gayless · superlative most gayless

1. Lacking gaiety; gloomy; somber; drab

   She ambled in, wearing a gayless smile.

   2011, Scars of a Calabash Misdeed

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   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

   Synonyms: bleak, dreary, cheerless, comfortless, bleak, dark, morose, depressing · Antonyms: cheery, gayful

2. 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

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   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

1. A surname.