ungay

ungay adjective: not gay; not cheerful or merry.

Adjective

ungay (comparative more ungay, superlative most ungay)

(dated) Not gay; not cheerful or merry.
- With specious baits they dangle the lure of cheapness as the sole attraction. Cheap clothes represent the falsest of all economies. Their life is not only short, it is exceedingly unpleasant and obviously ungay.1922, The Nation and Athenæum, volume 32, page 359
Not homosexual.
- I had not come out yet and he was out but wasn't; quite ungay, I would say, and yet gay.2011, Allan Bérubé, My Desire for History: Essays in Gay, Community, and Labor History
Not gay (all senses)
- That movie was gay.
  Are you kidding me? That was the most ungay movie ever made!

ungay (third-person singular simple present ungays, present participle ungaying, simple past and past participle ungayed)

(transitive) To make not gay or less gay.
- He was too preoccupied by too many different feelings to think rationally and realize that he was doing it again, trying to “ungay” himself.2009, J. R. Dewesse, To Be Loved: Because It Was Forbidden
- “That is what I believed until Sukuma ungayed me.” “I think you need to be resting at this time instead of trying to get ungayed!”2011, Nsedu B. Onyile, Ten Days With Minor

Adjective
comparative	more ungay
superlative	most ungay
Verb
third-person singular present	ungays
present participle	ungaying
past participle	ungayed
past	ungayed
alternative form	un-gay

From un- (“non-, not”) + gay.

From un- (“de-, dis-”) + gay.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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