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gayless

gayless adjective: lacking gaiety; gloomy; somber; drab.

Adjective

gayless (comparative more gayless, superlative most gayless)

  1. 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
    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
    • 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

Proper noun capitalized: Gayless

Gayless

  1. A surname.

Synonyms of gayless

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Antonyms

Forms of gayless

comparativemore gayless
superlativemost gayless

Origin of gayless

From gay + -less.

Questions about gayless

What does gayless mean?
Gayless means lacking gaiety; gloomy; somber; drab.
What part of speech is gayless?
Gayless can be an adjective or a proper noun.

Words near gayless in the dictionary

  1. gayization
  2. Gayla
  3. gayle
  4. Gayler
  5. Gaylers
  6. gayless
  7. Gayley process
  8. gaylicious
  9. gayling
  10. gaylings
  11. Gaylor

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