ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Gayless

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Gayless is an adjective meaning Lacking gaiety; gloomy; somber; drab.

Meaning

Lacking gaiety; gloomy; somber; drab.

More Meanings

  1. Without gay people.

Example Sentences

She ambled in, wearing a gayless smile.
The brown burnt earth, / Of fruits and flowers and every verdure spoiled; / Barren and bare, a gayless, dreary waste, [...]
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?
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.

Synonyms for gayless

Depending on context, synonyms include bleak, dreary, cheerless, comfortless, dark, morose.

Antonyms for gayless

Common opposites include cheery, gayful.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gayman, ghey, gladden, galey.

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