| gay | (adjective) bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer | Synonyms: cheery, sunny |
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| (adjective) brightly colored and showy | Synonyms: brave, braw |
| (adjective) homosexual or arousing homosexual desires | Synonyms: homophile, queer |
| (adjective) given to social pleasures often including dissipation | - |
| (adjective) offering fun and gaiety | Synonyms: festal, festive, merry |
| (adjective) full of or showing high-spirited merriment | Synonyms: jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful |
| (noun) someone who is sexually attracted to persons of the same sex | Synonyms: homo, homophile, homosexual |
| gayal | (noun) ox of southeast Asia sometimes considered a domesticated breed of the gaur | Synonyms: Bibos frontalis, mithan |
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| gayfeather | (noun) any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads | Synonyms: blazing star, button snakeroot, gay-feather, snakeroot |
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| gayly | (adverb) in a joyous manner | Synonyms: blithely, happily, jubilantly, merrily, mirthfully |
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| gayness | (noun) a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex | Synonyms: homoeroticism, homosexualism, homosexuality, queerness |
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| gaywings | (noun) common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals | Synonyms: bird-on-the-wing, flowering wintergreen, fringed polygala, Polygala paucifolia |
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