What does gay mean?
Gay means Homosexual:.
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/ɡeɪ/ · adjective
Homosexual:.
This game is gay; let’s play a different one.
Dolph: "Oh, man! You kissed a girl!" Jimbo: "That is so gay!"
The Gay Science
Never was there a more copious Fancy or greater reach of Wit, than what appears in Dr. Donne; nothing can be more gallant or gentile than the poems of Mr. Waller; nothing more gay or ſprightly than thoſe of Sir John Suckling; and nothing fuller of Variety and Learning than Mr. Cowley’s.
Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.
The Gay Divorcee.
’Tis fine to be a pretty girl, or just a gay and witty girl, And obviously to be both is rightly counted jam[.]
To think that only yesterday / I was cheerful, bright and gay
Use gay when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Gay means Homosexual:.
Common synonyms include homosexual, homosexual person and Thesaurus:male homosexual, ghey, indulgent.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
This game is gay; let’s play a different one.
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