Definition for Gay:

• ( gayer, -est). Full of or disposed to or indicating mirth, light-hearted, sportive; airy, off-hand; ( euphem.) dissolute, immoral, living by prostitution; showy, brilliant, bright-coloured, finely dressed. Hence gaily adv. [ French]

Synonyms for Gay:

• adj.

  •AC-DC (adjective)
  • most double gaited,
  • most doublegaited,
  • hits ways,
  • biest,
  • switchhitting,
  • more hermaphroditic,
  • Gynandrous,
  • most double-gaited,
  • more switchhitting,
  • more switch-hitting,
  • most monoclinous,
  • inter sexual,
  • more double-gaited,
  • more monoclinous,
  • more double gaited,
  • ACDC,
  • most switch hitting,
  • hits both ways,
  • most gynandrous,
  • more doublegaited,
  • epicene,
  • doublegaited,
  • most switchhitting,
  • double gaited,
  • more gynandrous,
  • swings ways,
  • more intersexual,
  • most hermaphroditic,
  • ac dc,
  • most intersexual,
  • inter-sexual,
  • more switch hitting,
  • switch hitting,
  • most switch-hitting.
  •airy (adjective)
  • graceful,
  • Light-hearted.
  •all (adjective)
  • gay.
  •animate (adjective)
  • more energized,
  • most activated,
  • more activated,
  • most energized.
  •animated (adjective)
  • zingiest,
  • most vitalized,
  • quick,
  • quickest,
  • more vitalized,
  • most zestful,
  • zingier,
  • ex cited,
  • more fervent,
  • more zestful,
  • ex-cited.
  •beautiful (adjective)
  • bonny.
  •blithe (adjective)
  • chirpiest,
  • most gladsome,
  • gladsome,
  • more gladsome,
  • chirpier,
  • chirpy.
  •breezy (adjective)
  • most low pressure,
  • more low pressure,
  • more low-pressure,
  • more easy-going,
  • lowpressure,
  • in formal,
  • most easy-going,
  • in-formal,
  • most easy going,
  • most low-pressure,
  • most lowpressure,
  • more easy going,
  • free easy,
  • more lowpressure.
  •bright (adjective)
  • glitzy,
  • razzle-dazzle,
  • hued.
  •buoyant (adjective)
  • most invigorated,
  • more invigorated,
  • full zip.
  •cheerful (adjective)
  • zappy,
  • warm,
  • cheery,
  • complaisant,
  • full of pep,
  • cordial,
  • sparkling,
  • sunny,
  • agreeable,
  • spirited,
  • in good spirits,
  • bright,
  • affable,
  • genial,
  • in high spirits,
  • up-beat,
  • pleasant,
  • easygoing,
  • sunny side up,
  • amiable,
  • pleased,
  • friendly,
  • optimistic,
  • congenial,
  • jaunty.
  •colorful (adjective)
  • multi-colored,
  • motley,
  • prismatic,
  • flaky,
  • chromatic,
  • characterful,
  • florid.
  •colorful, vivid (adjective)
  • brilliant,
  • fresh,
  • brave,
  • showy,
  • flashy,
  • flamboyant,
  • garish,
  • intense.
  •convivial (adjective)
  • more back slapping,
  • clubbier,
  • most gladhandering,
  • more glad handering,
  • more festal,
  • gladhandering,
  • more backslapping,
  • clubbiest,
  • most glad handering,
  • more gladhandering,
  • glad handering,
  • more glad-handering,
  • most festal,
  • festal,
  • most back slapping,
  • most holiday,
  • most conversible,
  • more holiday,
  • most backslapping,
  • most glad-handering,
  • most back-slapping,
  • back slapping,
  • more back-slapping,
  • more conversible.
  •dashing (adjective)
  • rousing,
  • more swashbuckling,
  • fearless,
  • most swashbuckling.
  •elastic (adjective)
  • most recuperative,
  • more recuperative,
  • recuperative.
  •entertaining (adjective)
  • in-spiring,
  • most recreative,
  • pro vocative,
  • more side-splitting,
  • side splitting,
  • more side splitting,
  • most side splitting,
  • gassest,
  • side-splitting,
  • more relaxing,
  • most captivating,
  • more recreative,
  • ex-citing,
  • de lightful,
  • be ball,
  • pro-vocative,
  • be a ball,
  • screamest,
  • in spiring,
  • riotest,
  • de-lightful,
  • re creative,
  • more captivating,
  • ex citing,
  • most side-splitting,
  • most relaxing.
  •exuberant (adjective)
  • feeling ones oats,
  • feeling one oats,
  • feeling oats.
  •facetious (adjective)
  • most wisecracking,
  • most punning,
  • laughable,
  • irreverent,
  • in decorous,
  • pulling one leg,
  • ironic,
  • pulling ones leg,
  • facetious,
  • ludicrous,
  • more punning,
  • flippest,
  • farcical,
  • most jesting,
  • joking,
  • most joshing,
  • pulling leg,
  • more ironic,
  • wry,
  • in-decorous,
  • most capering,
  • most comic,
  • more ridiculous,
  • more wisecracking,
  • more joshing,
  • more jesting,
  • more capering.
  •festive (adjective)
  • most carnivalesque,
  • most go go,
  • go go,
  • most rocking,
  • more go-go,
  • more gogo,
  • more grooving,
  • Rocking,
  • more carnivalesque,
  • more rocking,
  • juiced up,
  • most carnival,
  • most gogo,
  • more go go,
  • GOGO,
  • most grooving,
  • swinging,
  • most go-go,
  • more carnival.
  •frivolous (adjective)
  • un-profoundest,
  • most nonserious,
  • more lightminded,
  • shallow,
  • un-profounder,
  • most light-minded,
  • non serious,
  • un profoundest,
  • light minded,
  • lightminded,
  • ill considered,
  • unprofoundest,
  • illconsidered,
  • light-minded,
  • un-important,
  • empty headed,
  • un profound,
  • more light minded,
  • un profounder,
  • unprofounder,
  • shallower,
  • nonserious,
  • most lightminded,
  • un-profound,
  • more light-minded,
  • flighty,
  • un important,
  • unprofound,
  • most light minded,
  • tongue-in-cheek,
  • more nonserious,
  • ill-considered,
  • non-serious.
  •frolicsome (adjective)
  • most coltish,
  • more antic,
  • more coltish,
  • most gamesome,
  • more gamesome,
  • Gamesome,
  • impish,
  • most antic,
  • mischievous,
  • kittenish.
  •funny (adjective)
  • most humdinger,
  • most killing,
  • knee slapper,
  • most screaming,
  • more knee slapper,
  • more knee-slapper,
  • more kneeslapper,
  • funnier,
  • more humdinger,
  • more screaming,
  • kneeslapper,
  • most gelastic,
  • most knee-slapper,
  • more killing,
  • killing,
  • most kneeslapper,
  • screaming,
  • most knee slapper,
  • more gelastic.
  •gaudy (adjective)
  • putting on ritz,
  • more splendiferous,
  • more frou frou,
  • most splendiferous,
  • most pizzazz,
  • most tinsel,
  • kitschier,
  • most frou-frou,
  • kitschiest,
  • more frou-frou,
  • frou frou,
  • tawdry,
  • most catchpenny,
  • most frou frou,
  • putting the ritz,
  • more froufrou,
  • Flaunting,
  • kitschy,
  • more pizzazz,
  • putting ritz,
  • most froufrou,
  • more catchpenny,
  • more tinsel.
  •glad (adjective)
  • most pleased,
  • floating air,
  • pleased as punch,
  • over-joyed,
  • over joyed,
  • tickled death,
  • cant complain.
  •gleeful (adjective)
  • de lighted,
  • de-lighted,
  • exultant,
  • boonest,
  • booner.
  •happy (adjective)
  • pushy,
  • rollicking,
  • bouncy,
  • Presuming,
  • hilarious,
  • insouciant,
  • jocund,
  • animate,
  • devil-may-care,
  • joyous,
  • brash,
  • keen,
  • sportive,
  • forward,
  • blithesome,
  • zippy,
  • alert,
  • self-assertive,
  • confident.
  •hearty (adjective)
  • un-feigned,
  • heartiest,
  • deep felt,
  • deepfelt,
  • un-restrained,
  • most deep-felt,
  • pro fuse,
  • more deepfelt,
  • most deepfelt,
  • most deep felt,
  • more deep-felt,
  • pro-fuse,
  • un-reserved,
  • un feigned,
  • more deep felt.
  •hilarious (adjective)
  • gutbusting,
  • more gutbusting,
  • gut busting,
  • most gutbusting,
  • more gut-busting,
  • more gut busting,
  • most gut busting,
  • most gut-busting.
  •homosexual (adjective)
  • homophile,
  • same-sex.
  •ostentatious (adjective)
  • glittery,
  • peacocky,
  • exhibitionistic,
  • uptown,
  • highfaluting,
  • ostentatious.
  •perky (adjective)
  • in fine fettle,
  • bright-eyed and bushy-tailed,
  • perky.
  •pert (adjective)
  • smartalecky,
  • dis-respectful,
  • in-solent,
  • smart alecky,
  • in solent,
  • pre sumptuous,
  • dis respectful.
  •playful (adjective)
  • most elvish,
  • more elvish,
  • flirtatious.
  •radiant (adjective)
  • radiant.
  •raffish (adjective)
  • dis-reputable,
  • un conventional,
  • dis reputable,
  • un-couth,
  • most bohemian,
  • more bohemian,
  • un couth,
  • un-conventional.
  •rakish (adjective)
  • dis solute,
  • dis-solute.
  •sporting (adjective)
  • straight shooting,
  • square shooting,
  • square dealing.
  •sporting/sportive (adjective)
  • most sportspersonlike,
  • more sportspersonlike,
  • most sporting,
  • full fun,
  • most larkish,
  • most sportive,
  • more larkish.
  •sprightly (adjective)
  • quick witted,
  • most keenwitted,
  • more keen-witted,
  • most keen witted,
  • quickwitted,
  • more fairylike,
  • keen witted,
  • most keen-witted,
  • keenwitted,
  • more keen witted,
  • more keenwitted,
  • most fairylike.
  •unconstrained (adjective)
  • un-inhibited,
  • un controlled,
  • un inhibited,
  • un constrained,
  • in-corrigible,
  • in corrigible,
  • un-controlled,
  • in-continent,
  • un-bridled,
  • un-principled,
  • un-constrained,
  • un bridled,
  • in continent,
  • un principled.
  •vivacious (adjective)
  • full life,
  • zestier,
  • full of life,
  • zestiest.
  •vivid (adjective)
  • de-finite,
  • more true-to-life,
  • de finite,
  • re-splendent,
  • more true to life,
  • highly colored,
  • most true to life,
  • most true-to-life.
  •volatile (adjective)
  • un-steadier,
  • un steady,
  • shortlived,
  • in consistent,
  • un steadier,
  • un-settled,
  • un-steadiest,
  • in-consistent,
  • un settled,
  • un steadiest,
  • short lived.
  •waggish (adjective)
  • more clowning,
  • most clowning.
  •witty (adjective)
  • campier,
  • campiest,
  • epigrammatic,
  • campy,
  • witty.

• n.

  •braw (noun)
  • braw.
  •gay (noun)
  • debonair,
  • butch,
  • gay colours,
  • poof,
  • pansy,
  • colourful,
  • fag,
  • camp,
  • dykey,
  • fairy,
  • carefree,
  • queen,
  • homo,
  • animated,
  • queer,
  • woofter,
  • pleasure-seeking,
  • bisexual,
  • faggot,
  • in good/high spirits,
  • lesbian,
  • bent,
  • dyke,
  • nancy.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • LGBT,
  • homoerotic,
  • outing,
  • sad,
  • the pink dollar,
  • ungoverned,
  • Sexual Orientation,
  • stonewall,
  • uninhibited,
  • unconstrained,
  • solemn,
  • closeted,
  • fag hag,
  • GLBT,
  • sapphic.
  •
  • incontinent,
  • unbridled,
  • dissolute,
  • profligate,
  • licentious,
  • dissipated.
  •
  • wanton,
  • unrestrained,
  • uncontrolled.
  •
  • abandoned.
  •
  • fast,
  • wild.
  •
  • rich.
  •
  • come out.
  •
  • out.
  •frolicsome
  • playful.
  •yelling
  • Whooping.

Paraphrases for Gay:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    homosexual.
  • Proper noun, singular
    homosexual.
  • Noun, plural
    Homosexuals.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    happy.
  • Proper noun, singular
    Gai.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    lesbian, cheerful, merry.
  • Proper noun, singular
    gaya, lesbian, lesbians, homosexuality.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    cheerful, merry.

Antonyms for Gay:

• adj.

  • colorful, vivid
    calm, modest.
  • happy
    worried, lifeless, plain, uncolorful, unhappy, dull, colorless, upset, discouraged, depressed.

• n.

  • gay
    heterosexual, sad, gloomy, straight.

Homophones for Gay:

• Gaye, guay.

Hypernym for Gay:

• n.

  • person
    lesbian, closet queen, fag, gay woman, fagot, pouf, tribade, poof, queen, poove, pansy, fairy, faggot, queer, nance.

Hyponym for Gay:

• n.

  • person
    person, soul, mortal, someone, somebody, individual.