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Another word for gay

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gay

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Happy
lighthearted, merry, vivacious; see happy 1, lively 2, sprightly.
Bright
brilliant, intense, vivid, showy; see bright 1, 2.
Homosexual
homophile, homoerotic, lesbian; see homosexual. See syn. study at lively.

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Another word for gay

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Characterized by joyful exuberance:
blithe, blithesome, boon², convivial, gleeful, jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful. See happy
Full of color:
bright, colorful, rich, vivid. See colors
Of, relating to, or having a sexual orientation to members of one's own sex:
homophile, homosexual, lesbian. See sex
Lacking in moral restraint:
abandoned, dissipated, dissolute, fast, incontinent, licentious, profligate, rakish, unbridled, unconstrained, uncontrolled, ungoverned, uninhibited, unrestrained, wanton, wild. See restraint

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She thought her too fashionably dressed, frivolously gay and vain.
The gay remembrance of a life well spent.
It was a gay and brilliant fete.
He was "gay and sprightly, with a turn for wit and humour."
Gay-Lussac in 181q, is usually obtained in the form of its barium salt by suspending freshly precipitated hydrated manganese dioxide in water and passing sulphur dioxide into the mixture until all is dissolved; the barium salt is then precipitated by the careful addition of barium hydroxide.

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