What is another word for gay?
1147 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ɡˈe͡ɪ], [ ɡˈeɪ], [ ɡ_ˈeɪ]
Gay is a term which refers to a person who is attracted to someone of the same sex. Despite its widespread usage as a synonym for homosexuality, the word has been criticised as being ambiguous and potentially insensitive. Therefore, numerous synonyms for gay have been introduced in recent times to provide a wider spectrum of vocabulary choices to describe the LGBTQ+ community. Some of the most commonly used synonyms for the term gay include queer, lesbian, bisexual, and pansexual. These words are considered more inclusive than gay, which is often perceived as a limiting and outdated expression. Additionally, terms like genderqueer and non-binary have been introduced to represent a broader range of gender identities.
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Similar words for gay:
- blithe (adjective)
- bright (adjective)
- cheerful (adjective)
- colorful (adjective)
- elastic (adjective)
- homosexual (adjective)
- jovial (adjective)
- joyful (adjective)
- lively (adjective)
- ostentatious (adjective)
- perky (adjective)
- pert (adjective)
- sporting (adjective)
- witty (adjective)
- AC-DC (adjective)
- airy (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- animate (adjective)
- animated (adjective)
- breezy (adjective)
- buoyant (adjective)
- convivial (adjective)
- dashing (adjective)
- entertaining (adjective)
- exuberant (adjective)
- facetious (adjective)
- festive (adjective)
- frivolous (adjective)
- frolicsome (adjective)
- funny (adjective)
- gaudy (adjective)
- glad (adjective)
- gleeful (adjective)
- hearty (adjective)
- hilarious (adjective)
- insouciant (adjective)
- jaunty (adjective)
- jocular (adjective)
- jocular/jocose/jocund (adjective)
- jolly (adjective)
- joyful/joyous (adjective)
- light (adjective)
- lighthearted (adjective)
- mercurial (adjective)
- merry (adjective)
- playful (adjective)
- raffish (adjective)
- rakish (adjective)
- sporting/sportive (adjective)
- sprightly (adjective)
- unconstrained (adjective)
- vivacious (adjective)
- vivid (adjective)
- volatile (adjective)
- waggish (adjective)
- gay (noun)
Synonyms for Gay:
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adj.
• blithe • bright • cheerful- affable ,
- agreeable ,
- amiable ,
- bright ,
- cheery ,
- complaisant ,
- congenial ,
- cordial ,
- easygoing ,
- friendly ,
- genial ,
- jaunty ,
- optimistic ,
- pleasant ,
- pleased ,
- sparkling ,
- spirited ,
- sunny ,
- sunny side up ,
- up-beat ,
- warm ,
- zappy .
- ACDC ,
- Gynandrous ,
- ac dc ,
- biest ,
- double gaited ,
- doublegaited ,
- epicene ,
- hits both ways ,
- hits ways ,
- inter sexual ,
- inter-sexual ,
- more double gaited ,
- more double-gaited ,
- more doublegaited ,
- more gynandrous ,
- more hermaphroditic ,
- more intersexual ,
- more monoclinous ,
- more switch hitting ,
- more switch-hitting ,
- more switchhitting ,
- most double gaited ,
- most double-gaited ,
- most doublegaited ,
- most gynandrous ,
- most hermaphroditic ,
- most intersexual ,
- most monoclinous ,
- most switch hitting ,
- most switch-hitting ,
- most switchhitting ,
- swings ways ,
- switch hitting ,
- switchhitting .
- gay .
- ex cited ,
- ex-cited ,
- more fervent ,
- more vitalized ,
- more zestful ,
- most vitalized ,
- most zestful ,
- quick ,
- quickest ,
- zingier ,
- zingiest .
- free easy ,
- in formal ,
- in-formal ,
- lowpressure ,
- more easy going ,
- more easy-going ,
- more low pressure ,
- more low-pressure ,
- more lowpressure ,
- most easy going ,
- most easy-going ,
- most low pressure ,
- most low-pressure ,
- most lowpressure .
- back slapping ,
- clubbier ,
- clubbiest ,
- glad handering ,
- gladhandering ,
- more back slapping ,
- more back-slapping ,
- more backslapping ,
- more conversible ,
- more festal ,
- more glad handering ,
- more glad-handering ,
- more gladhandering ,
- more holiday ,
- most back slapping ,
- most back-slapping ,
- most backslapping ,
- most conversible ,
- most festal ,
- most glad handering ,
- most glad-handering ,
- most gladhandering ,
- most holiday .
- be a ball ,
- be ball ,
- de lightful ,
- de-lightful ,
- ex citing ,
- ex-citing ,
- gassest ,
- in spiring ,
- in-spiring ,
- more captivating ,
- more recreative ,
- more relaxing ,
- more side splitting ,
- more side-splitting ,
- most captivating ,
- most recreative ,
- most relaxing ,
- most side splitting ,
- most side-splitting ,
- pro vocative ,
- pro-vocative ,
- re creative ,
- riotest ,
- screamest ,
- side splitting .
- farcical ,
- flippest ,
- in decorous ,
- in-decorous ,
- ironic ,
- irreverent ,
- joking ,
- more capering ,
- more ironic ,
- more jesting ,
- more joshing ,
- more punning ,
- more ridiculous ,
- more wisecracking ,
- most capering ,
- most comic ,
- most jesting ,
- most joshing ,
- most punning ,
- most wisecracking ,
- pulling leg ,
- pulling one leg ,
- pulling ones leg ,
- wry .
- GOGO ,
- Rocking ,
- go go ,
- juiced up ,
- more carnival ,
- more carnivalesque ,
- more go go ,
- more go-go ,
- more gogo ,
- more grooving ,
- more rocking ,
- most carnival ,
- most carnivalesque ,
- most go go ,
- most go-go ,
- most gogo ,
- most grooving ,
- most rocking ,
- swinging .
- empty headed ,
- ill considered ,
- ill-considered ,
- illconsidered ,
- light minded ,
- light-minded ,
- lightminded ,
- more light minded ,
- more light-minded ,
- more lightminded ,
- more nonserious ,
- most light minded ,
- most light-minded ,
- most lightminded ,
- most nonserious ,
- non serious ,
- non-serious ,
- nonserious ,
- shallow ,
- shallower ,
- tongue-in-cheek ,
- un important ,
- un profound ,
- un profounder ,
- un profoundest ,
- un-important ,
- un-profound ,
- un-profounder ,
- un-profoundest ,
- unprofound ,
- unprofounder ,
- unprofoundest .
- impish ,
- mischievous ,
- more antic ,
- more coltish ,
- more gamesome ,
- most antic ,
- most coltish ,
- most gamesome .
- funnier ,
- killing ,
- knee slapper ,
- kneeslapper ,
- more gelastic ,
- more humdinger ,
- more killing ,
- more knee slapper ,
- more knee-slapper ,
- more kneeslapper ,
- more screaming ,
- most gelastic ,
- most humdinger ,
- most killing ,
- most knee slapper ,
- most knee-slapper ,
- most kneeslapper ,
- most screaming ,
- screaming .
- frou frou ,
- kitschier ,
- kitschiest ,
- kitschy ,
- more catchpenny ,
- more frou frou ,
- more frou-frou ,
- more froufrou ,
- more pizzazz ,
- more splendiferous ,
- more tinsel ,
- most catchpenny ,
- most frou frou ,
- most frou-frou ,
- most froufrou ,
- most pizzazz ,
- most splendiferous ,
- most tinsel ,
- putting on ritz ,
- putting ritz ,
- putting the ritz ,
- tawdry .
- deep felt ,
- deepfelt ,
- heartiest ,
- more deep felt ,
- more deep-felt ,
- more deepfelt ,
- most deep felt ,
- most deep-felt ,
- most deepfelt ,
- pro fuse ,
- pro-fuse ,
- un feigned ,
- un-feigned ,
- un-reserved ,
- un-restrained .
- gut busting ,
- gutbusting ,
- more gut busting ,
- more gut-busting ,
- more gutbusting ,
- most gut busting ,
- most gut-busting ,
- most gutbusting .
- happy go lucky ,
- more unworried ,
- most unworried ,
- un concerned ,
- un troubled ,
- un worried ,
- un-concerned ,
- un-troubled ,
- un-worried .
- devil may care ,
- more prankish ,
- more swaggering ,
- most prankish ,
- most swaggering ,
- self confident ,
- selfconfident .
- high as kite ,
- more enraptured ,
- more joyous ,
- more popping ,
- most enraptured ,
- most joyous ,
- most popping ,
- sunnyside up ,
- trans ported .
- in-constant ,
- irrepressible ,
- more bubbleheaded ,
- more fluctuating ,
- more quicksilver ,
- more short fuse ,
- more short-fuse ,
- more shortfuse ,
- more yo yo ,
- more yo-yo ,
- more yoyo ,
- most bubbleheaded ,
- most fluctuating ,
- most quicksilver ,
- most short fuse ,
- most short-fuse ,
- most shortfuse ,
- most yo yo ,
- most yo-yo ,
- most yoyo ,
- shortfuse ,
- un predictable ,
- un stable ,
- un stabler ,
- un stablest ,
- un-predictable ,
- un-stable ,
- un-stabler ,
- un-stablest ,
- yo yo .
- fun loving ,
- funloving ,
- more fun loving ,
- more fun-loving ,
- more funloving ,
- more rip roaring ,
- more rip-roaring ,
- more riproaring ,
- more saturnalian ,
- most fun loving ,
- most fun-loving ,
- most funloving ,
- most rip roaring ,
- most rip-roaring ,
- most riproaring ,
- most saturnalian ,
- rip roaring ,
- rip-roaring .
- dis reputable ,
- dis-reputable ,
- more bohemian ,
- most bohemian ,
- un conventional ,
- un couth ,
- un-conventional ,
- un-couth .
- full fun ,
- more larkish ,
- more sportspersonlike ,
- most larkish ,
- most sporting ,
- most sportive ,
- most sportspersonlike .
- keen witted ,
- keenwitted ,
- more fairylike ,
- more keen witted ,
- more keen-witted ,
- more keenwitted ,
- most fairylike ,
- most keen witted ,
- most keen-witted ,
- most keenwitted ,
- quick witted ,
- quickwitted .
- in continent ,
- in corrigible ,
- in-continent ,
- in-corrigible ,
- un bridled ,
- un constrained ,
- un controlled ,
- un inhibited ,
- un principled ,
- un-bridled ,
- un-constrained ,
- un-controlled ,
- un-inhibited ,
- un-principled .
- de finite ,
- de-finite ,
- highly colored ,
- more true to life ,
- more true-to-life ,
- most true to life ,
- most true-to-life ,
- re-splendent .
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n.
• gay Other synonyms:
- GLBT ,
- LGBT ,
- Sexual Orientation ,
- bi ,
- closeted ,
- fag hag ,
- homoerotic ,
- outing ,
- sad ,
- sapphic ,
- solemn ,
- stonewall ,
- the pink dollar ,
- unconstrained ,
- ungoverned ,
- uninhibited .
- come out .
- dissipated ,
- dissolute ,
- gleeful ,
- incontinent ,
- licentious ,
- profligate ,
- rakish ,
- unbridled ,
- vivid ,
- volatile .
- out .
- rich .
Other relevant words:
- A ,
- Adulterer ,
- Big-sounding ,
- Bravura ,
- Capering ,
- Cavorting ,
- Cheerly ,
- Chirping ,
- Eupeptic ,
- FOU ,
- Flaunting ,
- Frolicking ,
- Gairish ,
- Gambolling ,
- Gamesome ,
- Gladdening ,
- High-colored ,
- Inebrious ,
- Janty ,
- Light-hearted ,
- Monde ,
- Presuming ,
- Purring ,
- Rakehell ,
- Rakehelly ,
- Reeling ,
- Riggish ,
- Romping ,
- Rompish ,
- Smirking ,
- Sotted ,
- Sparky ,
- Spiritful ,
- Sprightful ,
- Vitalized ,
- absurd ,
- ac-dc ,
- active ,
- addled ,
- agile ,
- agreeably ,
- airily ,
- airy ,
- alert ,
- allegro ,
- amphierotic ,
- amusing ,
- amusingly ,
- anemone ,
- animate ,
- animated ,
- animating ,
- antic ,
- applaud ,
- appoint ,
- arise ,
- arrange ,
- ascertain ,
- asphodel ,
- astir ,
- audacious ,
- auntie ,
- autoerotic ,
- beaming ,
- beatific ,
- beatified ,
- beatify ,
- beau monde ,
- beautifully ,
- become popular ,
- bedight ,
- beery ,
- befall ,
- begonia ,
- bemused ,
- benefaction ,
- benign ,
- bent ,
- besotted ,
- bisexed ,
- bisexual ,
- blessed ,
- blissful ,
- blithe ,
- blithely ,
- blithesome ,
- bon ton ,
- bonny ,
- boon ,
- bouncy ,
- bountiful ,
- boy ,
- brash ,
- brave ,
- braw ,
- breezy ,
- bright-eyed and bushy-tailed ,
- bright-hued ,
- brightly ,
- brilliant ,
- brilliantly ,
- brisk ,
- bubbling ,
- bubbly ,
- build ,
- bully ,
- burning ,
- butch ,
- buttercup ,
- camp ,
- campy ,
- cant ,
- canty ,
- capersome ,
- carefree ,
- celebratory ,
- charming ,
- cheer ,
- cheerfully ,
- cheerily ,
- cheering ,
- chichi ,
- chipper ,
- chirpy ,
- civilization ,
- civilized life ,
- clownish ,
- colorful ,
- colory ,
- colourful ,
- coltish ,
- comic ,
- comical ,
- confident ,
- constitute ,
- content ,
- cordially ,
- courageous ,
- court ,
- crackpot ,
- crank ,
- crapulent ,
- crapulous ,
- crazy ,
- create ,
- curious ,
- daffodil ,
- dancing ,
- daring ,
- dashing ,
- day lily ,
- debauched ,
- debauchee ,
- debonair ,
- debonnaire ,
- delighted ,
- delightful ,
- demonstrate ,
- determine ,
- deviant ,
- devil-may-care ,
- dizzy ,
- drag queen ,
- drawing-room ,
- drenched ,
- dressy ,
- drunk ,
- drunken ,
- dyke ,
- ebullient ,
- ecstatic ,
- effeminate ,
- effervescent ,
- elastic ,
- elated ,
- energetic ,
- enjoy yourself ,
- enlivening ,
- enraptured ,
- erect ,
- establish ,
- euphoric ,
- exhibitionistic ,
- exhilarated ,
- exhilarating ,
- exotic ,
- exquisitely ,
- exuberant ,
- exult ,
- exultant ,
- exulting ,
- facetious ,
- fag ,
- faggot ,
- faggy ,
- fairy ,
- far-gone ,
- fashion ,
- fashionable man ,
- fashionable world ,
- fearless ,
- felicitous ,
- festal ,
- festive ,
- fine ,
- fishy ,
- fix ,
- flamboyant ,
- flaming ,
- flashing ,
- flashy ,
- flighty ,
- florid ,
- flourish ,
- flower ,
- flowery ,
- flustered ,
- foolish ,
- fornicator ,
- fortunately ,
- forward ,
- found ,
- frail ,
- free ,
- fresh ,
- frilly ,
- frisky ,
- frivolous ,
- frolic ,
- frolicsome ,
- frothy ,
- fruit ,
- fruity ,
- full ,
- full of beans ,
- full of life ,
- full of pep ,
- full of spirit ,
- fun-loving ,
- funny ,
- gaiety ,
- gaily ,
- gala ,
- gallant ,
- garish ,
- gaudy ,
- genially ,
- gentleman ,
- geranium ,
- giddy ,
- gift ,
- ginger ,
- gladly ,
- gladsome ,
- glee ,
- gleefully ,
- glittering ,
- glorious ,
- glowing ,
- go ,
- goat ,
- good ,
- good society ,
- good-humoured ,
- goofy ,
- gorgeous ,
- grand ,
- grow ,
- guy ,
- hail-fellow-well-met ,
- halcyon ,
- happen ,
- happily ,
- happiness ,
- happy-go-lucky ,
- hardy ,
- hedonic ,
- high life ,
- high-sounding ,
- high-spirited ,
- hilarious ,
- homo ,
- hopeful ,
- human ,
- human being ,
- humanity ,
- humankind ,
- humans ,
- humorous ,
- husband ,
- hysterical ,
- in good spirits ,
- in heaven ,
- in high feather ,
- in high spirits ,
- in liquor ,
- in seventh heaven ,
- in spirits ,
- inane ,
- indulgent ,
- inebriate ,
- inebriated ,
- insouciant ,
- intense ,
- intoxicated ,
- intrepid ,
- invert ,
- inverted ,
- invigorated ,
- invigorating ,
- jauntily ,
- jauntiness ,
- jazzy ,
- jocose ,
- jocular ,
- jocund ,
- jovial ,
- jovially ,
- joyous ,
- jubilant ,
- keen ,
- kindly ,
- kinky ,
- kittenish ,
- kooky ,
- laughable ,
- laughing ,
- leaping ,
- lecher ,
- lecherous ,
- libertine ,
- light ,
- lighted ,
- lightly ,
- lightsome ,
- lily ,
- limp-wristed ,
- lit ,
- live ,
- loony ,
- ludicrous ,
- luminously ,
- mad ,
- madcap ,
- man ,
- mankind ,
- mannish ,
- manservant ,
- many-colored ,
- marigold ,
- maudlin ,
- mellow ,
- mercurial ,
- meretricious ,
- merrily ,
- merrymaking ,
- mirthful ,
- muddled ,
- nance ,
- nancy ,
- nappy ,
- nicely ,
- nimble ,
- nonchalant ,
- nonsensical ,
- nutty ,
- odd ,
- of easy virtue ,
- on cloud nine ,
- on the loose ,
- ornate ,
- ostentation ,
- ostentatious ,
- outgoing ,
- over the moon ,
- overjoyed ,
- overweening ,
- paillard ,
- palatial ,
- pansy ,
- peculiar ,
- peppy ,
- perky ,
- person ,
- pert ,
- perverted ,
- pizzazzy ,
- pleasantly ,
- pleasure-loving ,
- pleasure-seeking ,
- polite society ,
- pompous ,
- poncey ,
- poof ,
- pranked out ,
- prankish ,
- presumptuous ,
- pretentious ,
- prettily ,
- prosper ,
- prosperous ,
- prove ,
- pushful ,
- pushy ,
- queen ,
- radiant ,
- radiantly ,
- raffish ,
- rake ,
- rakehellish ,
- rapturous ,
- rejoice ,
- rejoicing ,
- rhapsodic ,
- riant ,
- rip ,
- risible ,
- rollicking ,
- rose ,
- rousing ,
- rum ,
- rummy ,
- sapphist ,
- satyr ,
- seducer ,
- self-assertive ,
- shady ,
- shining ,
- shiny ,
- show ,
- showy ,
- side-splitting ,
- silly ,
- singing ,
- singular ,
- sissy ,
- skittish ,
- slaphappy ,
- slapstick ,
- slightly ,
- smart ,
- smiling ,
- snappy ,
- snazzy ,
- society ,
- sodden ,
- softly ,
- soul ,
- spanking ,
- splashy ,
- splendid ,
- splurgy ,
- sportive ,
- sporty ,
- springy ,
- spry ,
- starry-eyed ,
- style ,
- summery ,
- sunlit ,
- sunnily ,
- sunshiny ,
- suspicious ,
- swish ,
- swishy ,
- take place ,
- thrive ,
- tiddly ,
- tiger lily ,
- tipsy ,
- ton ,
- town ,
- transvestite ,
- tribade ,
- tribadistic ,
- triumphant ,
- tulip ,
- turgid ,
- unchaste ,
- under the influence ,
- unfearing ,
- unmanly ,
- up ,
- upbeat ,
- uproarious ,
- vigorous ,
- vital ,
- vivacious ,
- vivacity ,
- vividly ,
- voluptuary ,
- wacky ,
- waggish ,
- weak ,
- well-groomed ,
- well-pleased ,
- whoremonger ,
- wildflower ,
- winsome ,
- witty ,
- womanish ,
- womanly ,
- world ,
- zany ,
- zestful ,
- zippy .
- Conversible ,
- Fairylike ,
- Froufrou ,
- Gelastic ,
- Keen-witted ,
- Larking ,
- Re-creative ,
- Recreative ,
- Saturnalian ,
- Tickled ,
- YOYO ,
- back-slapping ,
- backslapping ,
- boffo ,
- bubbleheaded ,
- buoyant ,
- can't complain ,
- carnivalesque ,
- catchpenny ,
- cheerful ,
- clubby ,
- deep-felt ,
- double-gaited ,
- easy going ,
- easy-going ,
- elvish ,
- emptyheaded ,
- feeling one's oats ,
- flipper ,
- floating on air ,
- flying high ,
- for grins ,
- frou-frou ,
- full of fun ,
- full of zip ,
- gagged up ,
- gasser ,
- glad ,
- glad-handering ,
- go-go ,
- goodlooking ,
- grooving ,
- gussied up ,
- gut-busting ,
- happy ,
- hermaphroditic ,
- high as a kite ,
- homosexual ,
- intersexual ,
- jokey ,
- jolly ,
- joyful ,
- knee-slapper ,
- laid back ,
- larkish ,
- lighthearted ,
- lively ,
- looking good ,
- lots of laughs ,
- low pressure ,
- low-pressure ,
- merry ,
- monoclinous ,
- not serious ,
- pulling one's leg ,
- punning ,
- putting on the ritz ,
- putting one on ,
- quicksilver ,
- rioter ,
- riproaring ,
- screamer ,
- short-fuse ,
- splendiferous ,
- sporting ,
- sportspersonlike ,
- sunny-side up ,
- swashbuckling ,
- swings both ways ,
- switch-hitting ,
- tickled to death ,
- tinsel ,
- tongue in cheek ,
- true to life ,
- true-to-life ,
- unworried ,
- walking on air ,
- wisecracking ,
- yo-yo ,
- zesty ,
- zingy .
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How to use "Gay" in context?
The word "gay" can refer to someone who is attracted to someone of the same gender or someone who is gender-non-conforming or transgender. Some people use the word to describe an entire community of people who identify as LGBTQ. LGBTQ stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer.
The use of the word "gay" has been challenged by some people who say that it is offensive and outdated. Others argue that the term is not actually a slur and that it should be used more respectfully. The use of the word in a scientific or factual context is usually considered acceptable.
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Equivalence
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Adjective
homosexual.
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Proper noun, singular
homosexual.
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Noun, plural
Homosexuals.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
happy.
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Proper noun, singular
Gai.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Proper noun, singular
homosexuality, lesbian, lesbians, gaya.
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Proper noun, singular
Homophones for Gay:
- Gaye, guay.
Hyponym for Gay:
Word of the Day
do anyhow
- Synonyms:
- Roughhew.
