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Gay

Gay Meaning & Definition
Gay Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Gay?

[n] someone who practices homosexuality; having a sexual attraction to persons of the same sex
[adj] bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer; "a cheery hello"; "a gay sunny room"; "a sunny smile"
[adj] brightly colored and showy; "girls decked out in brave new dresses"; "brave banners flying"; "`braw' is a Scottish word"; "a dress a bit too gay for her years"; "birds with gay plumage"
[adj] homosexual or arousing homosexual desires
[adj] given to social pleasures often including dissipation; "led a gay Bohemian life"; "a gay old rogue with an eye for the ladies"
[adj] offering fun and gaiety; "a gala ball after the inauguration"; "a festive (or festal) occasion"; "gay and exciting night life"; "a merry evening"
[adj] full of or showing high-spirited merriment; "when hearts were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at the reunion"; "jolly old Saint Nick"; "a jovial old gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"; "peals of merry laughter"; "a mirthful laugh"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Gay: brave | braw | cheerful | cheery | colorful | festal | festive | gala(a) | homo | homophile(a) | homosexual | homosexual | indulgent | jocund | jolly | jovial | joyous | merry | mirthful | queer | sunny

Related Terms | Find terms related to Gay: abandoned | AC-DC | addled | alert | amphierotic | animate | animated | antic | autoerotic | beaming | beatific | beatified | beery | bemused | besotted | bisexed | bisexual | blessed | blind drunk | blissful | blithe | blithesome | boon | brash | brave | bravura | braw | bright | bright-hued | brilliant | bubbling | bubbly | buoyant | burning | butch | cant | capering | capersome | carefree | cheerful | chichi | chipper | chirping | colorful | colory | coltish | confident | convivial | crapulent | crapulous | dancing | daring | dashing | debauched | debonair | deep-colored | deviant | devil-may-care | dissipated | dissolute | dizzy | drenched | dressy | drunk | drunken | effeminate | effervescent | exhibitionistic | exotic | exuberant | far-gone | fast | festal | festive | flashing | flashy | flaunting | flushed with joy | flustered | forward | fou | free | free and easy | frilly | frisky | frolicsome | frothy | full | full of beans | gala | gallant | gamesome | garish | gaudy | gay-colored | giddy | glad | gladsome | gleeful | glittering | glorious | glowing | gorgeous | hail-fellow-well-met | happy | hearty | high-colored | high-spirited | hilarious | homoerotic | homophile | homosexual | in liquor | inebriate | inebriated | inebrious | intense | intoxicated | inverted | jaunty | jazzy | jocund | jolly | jovial | joyful | joyous | jubilant | keen | laughing | leaping | lesbian | licentious | lighthearted | light-hearted | lively | mannish | many-colored | maudlin | mellow | merry | merrymaking | mirthful | muddled | nappy | on the loose | overweening | perverted | playful | presuming | profligate | purring | pushful | pushy | queer | radiant | raffish | rakehell | rakehellish | rakehelly | rakish | reeling | rich | rich-colored | rollicking | rollicksome | rompish | sapphic | self-assertive | shikker | showy | singing | skittish | smiling | smirking | snazzy | sodden | sotted | sparkling | spirited | splashy | splurgy | sportive | sporty | sprightly | starry-eyed | thrice happy | tiddly | tipsy | transvestite | tribadistic | unbridled | under the influence | vital | vivacious | vivid | wild | zestful | zippy

See Also | gay man | gay woman | human | individual | lesbian | mortal | person | shirtlifter | somebody | someone | soul

Gay In Webster's Dictionary

\Gay\, a. [Compar. {Gayer}; superl. {Gayest}.] [F. gai, perhaps fr. OHG. g?hi swift, rapid, G. g["a]h, j["a]h, steep, hasty; or cf. OHG. w?hi beatiful, good. Cf. {Jay}.] 1. Excited with merriment; manifesting sportiveness or delight; inspiring delight; livery; merry. Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay. --Pope. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed. --Gray. 2. Brilliant in colors; splendid; fine; richly dressed. Why is my neighbor's wife so gay? --Chaucer. A bevy of fair women, richly gay In gems and wanton dress! --Milton. 3. Loose; dissipated; lewd. [Colloq.] Syn: Merry; gleeful; blithe; airy; lively; sprightly, sportive; light-hearted; frolicsome; jolly; jovial; joyous; joyful; glad; showy; splendid; vivacious.
\Gay\, n. An ornament [Obs.] --L'Estrange.

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