gayless

See also: Gayless

English

From gay +‎ -less.

gayless (comparative more gayless, superlative most gayless)

Lacking gaiety; gloomy; somber; drab
Synonyms: bleak, dreary; see also Thesaurus:cheerless, Thesaurus:dim

Antonyms: cheery, gayful
- 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.
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.