gayless

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Gayless^¹

proper noun

A surname.

gayless^²

Where it comes from

From gay + -less.

adjective more gayless · most gayless

Lacking gaiety; gloomy; somber; drab The brown burnt earth, / Of fruits and flowers and every verdure spoiled; / Barren and bare, a gayless, dreary waste, [...]
Similar: bleak, dreary, cheerless, comfortless, dark, morose, depressing, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, doleful · Opposite: cheery, gayful
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?

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@misc{gayless_2026,
  title = {gayless},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gayless},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}