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Another word for gay

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Adjective

  1. Characterized by joyful exuberance

    See also:

    happy

  2. Full of color

    See also:

    colors

  3. Of, relating to, or having a sexual orientation to members of one's own sex

    See also:

    sex

  4. Lacking in moral restraint

    See also:

    restraint

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Another word for gay

Modifier

  1. Happy

    See also:

    sprightly

    lively

    happy

  2. Bright

    See also:

    bright

  3. Homosexual

    See also:

    lively

    homosexual

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • It was a gay and brilliant fete.

  • She thought her too fashionably dressed, frivolously gay and vain.

  • The gay remembrance of a life well spent.

  • He was "gay and sprightly, with a turn for wit and humour."

  • During the dull day, in the course of which he was entertained by his elderly hosts and by the more important of the visitors (the old count's house was crowded on account of an approaching name day), Prince Andrew repeatedly glanced at Natasha, gay and laughing among the younger members of the company, and asked himself each time, What is she thinking about?

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