Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gayless

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: gay-less
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

adj

Lacking gaiety; gloomy; somber; drab

adj

Without gay people.

Example Sentences

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

Etymology

From gay + -less.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: gay

Inflected Forms

more gayless (comparative) most gayless (superlative)

Synonyms

bleak dreary cheerless comfortless dark morose depressing desolate dire disconsolate dismal doleful

Antonyms

cheery gayful

Questions

What does gayless mean?: A surname.
Where does gayless come from?: From gay + -less.

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