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gay 音标拼音: [g'e] a. 快乐的,愉快的;鲜明的,鲜艳的 快乐的,愉快的;鲜明的,鲜艳的 gay adj 1: bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer; " a cheery hello"; " a gay sunny room"; " a sunny smile" [ synonym: { cheery}, { gay}, { sunny}] 2: full of or showing high- spirited merriment; " when hearts were young and gay"; " a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company"- Wordsworth; " the jolly crowd at the reunion"; " jolly old Saint Nick"; " a jovial old gentleman"; " have a merry Christmas"; " peals of merry laughter"; " a mirthful laugh" [ synonym: { gay}, { jocund}, { jolly}, { jovial}, { merry}, { mirthful}] 3: given to social pleasures often including dissipation; " led a gay Bohemian life"; " a gay old rogue with an eye for the ladies" 4: brightly colored and showy; " girls decked out in brave new dresses"; " brave banners flying"; "` braw' is a Scottish word"; " a dress a bit too gay for her years"; " birds with gay plumage" [ synonym: { brave}, { braw}, { gay}] 5: offering fun and gaiety; " a festive ( or festal) occasion"; " gay and exciting night life"; " a merry evening" [ synonym: { gay}, { festal}, { festive}, { merry}] 6: homosexual or arousing homosexual desires [ synonym: { gay}, { queer}, { homophile( a)}] n 1: someone who practices homosexuality; having a sexual attraction to persons of the same sex [ synonym: { homosexual}, { homophile}, { homo}, { gay}] Gay \ Gay\, n. An ornament [ Obs.] -- L' Estrange. [ 1913 Webster]
Gay \ Gay\ ( g[= a]), a. [ Compar. { Gayer}; superl. { Gayest}.] [ F. gai, perhaps fr. OHG. g? hi swift, rapid, G. g[ aum] h, j[ aum] h, steep, hasty; or cf. OHG. w? hi beatiful, good. Cf. { Jay}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. Excited with merriment; manifesting sportiveness or delight; inspiring delight; livery; merry. [ 1913 Webster] Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay. -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed. -- Gray. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Brilliant in colors; splendid; fine; richly dressed. [ 1913 Webster] Why is my neighbor' s wife so gay? -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] A bevy of fair women, richly gay In gems and wanton dress! -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Loose; dissipated; lewd. [ Colloq.] Syn: Merry; gleeful; blithe; airy; lively; sprightly, sportive; light- hearted; frolicsome; jolly; jovial; joyous; joyful; glad; showy; splendid; vivacious. [ 1913 Webster] 198 Moby Thesaurus words for " gay": AC- DC, abandoned, addled, alert, amphierotic, animate, animated, antic, autoerotic, beaming, beatific, beatified, beery, bemused, besotted, bisexed, bisexual, blessed, blind drunk, blissful, blithe, blithesome, boon, brash, brave, bravura, braw, bright, bright- hued, brilliant, bubbling, bubbly, buoyant, burning, butch, cant, capering, capersome, carefree, cheerful, chichi, chipper, chirping, colorful, colory, coltish, confident, convivial, crapulent, crapulous, dancing, daring, dashing, debauched, debonair, deep- colored, deviant, devil- may- care, dissipated, dissolute, dizzy, drenched, dressy, drunk, drunken, effeminate, effervescent, exhibitionistic, exotic, exuberant, far- gone, fast, festal, festive, flashing, flashy, flaunting, flushed with joy, flustered, forward, fou, free, free and easy, frilly, frisky, frolicsome, frothy, full, full of beans, gala, gallant, gamesome, garish, gaudy, gay- colored, giddy, glad, gladsome, gleeful, glittering, glorious, glowing, gorgeous, hail- fellow- well- met, happy, hearty, high- colored, high- spirited, hilarious, homoerotic, homophile, homosexual, in liquor, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, intense, intoxicated, inverted, jaunty, jazzy, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, jubilant, keen, laughing, leaping, lesbian, licentious, light- hearted, lighthearted, lively, mannish, many- colored, maudlin, mellow, merry, merrymaking, mirthful, muddled, nappy, on the loose, overweening, perverted, playful, presuming, profligate, purring, pushful, pushy, queer, radiant, raffish, rakehell, rakehellish, rakehelly, rakish, reeling, rich, rich- colored, rollicking, rollicksome, rompish, sapphic, self- assertive, shikker, showy, singing, skittish, smiling, smirking, snazzy, sodden, sotted, sparkling, spirited, splashy, splurgy, sportive, sporty, sprightly, starry- eyed, thrice happy, tiddly, tipsy, transvestite, tribadistic, unbridled, under the influence, vital, vivacious, vivid, wild, zestful, zippy |
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