Gay: alternatives and connections

Having or showing good spirits or joy; cheering; cheery; contented; happy; joyful; lively; animated; willing.

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Having or showing good spirits or joy; cheering; cheery; contented; happy; joyful; lively; animated; willing.

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Prone to indulge; yielding to the wishes, humor, or appetites of those under one's care; compliant; not opposing or restraining; tolerant; mild; favo…

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Prone to indulge; yielding to the wishes, humor, or appetites of those under one's care; compliant; not opposing or restraining; tolerant; mild; favo…

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Glad; gay; merry; joyful; also, affording or inspiring joy; with of before the word or words expressing the cause of joy.

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Glad; gay; merry; joyful; also, affording or inspiring joy; with of before the word or words expressing the cause of joy.

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Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or city.

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Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal.

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A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic represe…

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A person unknown or uncertain; a person indeterminate; some person.

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Sole.

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Of or pertaining to the island anciently called Lesbos, now Mitylene, in the Grecian Archipelago.

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Bold; courageous; daring; intrepid; -- opposed to cowardly; as, a brave man; a brave act.

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Of or pertaining to a holiday or a feast; joyous; festive.

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Pertaining to, or becoming, a feast; festal; joyous; gay; mirthful; sportive.

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Merry; cheerful; gay; airy; lively; sportive.

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Full of life and mirth; jovial; joyous; merry; mirthful.

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Of or pertaining to the god, or the planet, Jupiter.

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Laughingly gay; overflowing with good humor and good spirits; jovial; inclined to laughter or play ; sportive.

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Full of mirth or merriment; merry; as, mirthful children.

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At variance with what is usual or normal; differing in some odd way from what is ordinary; odd; singular; strange; whimsical; as, a queer story or ac…

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Of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from, or resembling the sun; hence, shining; bright; brilliant; radiant.

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