gayless

See also: Gayless

English

Etymology

From gay +‎ -less.

Adjective

gayless (comparative more gayless, superlative most gayless)

1. Lacking gaiety; gloomy; somber; drab
   • 1856, R. McCullam, Sketches of the Highlands of Cavan, and of Shirley Castle:

     The brown burnt earth, / Of fruits and flowers and every verdure spoiled; / Barren and bare, a gayless, dreary waste, [...]

   • 2011, Scars of a Calabash Misdeed:

     She ambled in, wearing a gayless smile.

2. Without gay people.
   • 2009, J. Neil C. Garcia, Philippine Gay Culture:

     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?

   • 2014, Melanie E. Brewster, Atheists in America:

     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.

Antonyms

• gayful