Gayless

Synonyms for "gayless" (63 found)

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Closest matches (13)

Adjective(13 words)

bland bleak cheerless colourless comfortless dark depressing desolate dim dingy dire disconsolate dismal

Strong matches (19)

Adjective(19 words)

doleful dolesome drear drearisome dreary dreich dull faint forbidding forlorn gloomsome gloomy glum gray grim humorless jokeless joyless lack-laughter

Related words (31)

Adjective(31 words)

lackluster leaden lugubrious melancholy mirthless miserable moody muddy no joke plaintive sad saturnine sober solemn solitary somber sombre spiritless stern sullen

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sunless uncheerful uncheery uncolorful unhappy unholiday unmerry unmirthful wan wintry woeful

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gayful

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gay

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drab gaiety gay gloomy somber

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

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

Source: wiktionary

She ambled in, wearing a gayless smile.

Source: wiktionary

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?

Source: wiktionary

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.

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