Thesaurus
gay
Synonyms and Antonyms of gay
- couples dancing a gay, fast-paced jig
- a gay, thoughtless girl who didn't care whether her work was done or not
- had a gay old time at the party
amused, beaming, chuckling, giggling, smiling
bright, buoyant, carefree, cheerful, cheery, chipper, lighthearted, lightsome, upbeat
animated, bouncing, frisky, jaunty, lively, peppy, perky, spirited, sprightful, sprightly, vivacious, zippy
blessed (also blest), blissful, delighted, ecstatic, elated, enraptured, entranced, euphoric, exhilarated, exuberant, exultant, gladsome, happy, high, joyful, joyous, jubilant, overjoyed, radiant, rapturous, ravished, thrilled, tickled
amusing, facetious, flippant, frolicsome, funny, hilarious, jesting, joking, joshing, playful, sportive, witty
cavalier, devil-may-care, easygoing, happy-go-lucky, insouciant, unconcerned
hopeful, optimistic, rosy, sanguine
antic, comic, comical, farcical, humorous, riotous, sidesplitting, uproarious
abject, aggrieved, anguished, blue, brokenhearted, crestfallen, dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, disheartened, dispirited, downcast, downhearted, forlorn, glum, heartbroken, heartsick, heavyhearted, low-spirited, melancholy, sad, saddened, sorrowful, unhappy
crying, groaning, moaning, sobbing, wailing, weeping
discontented, disgruntled, moody
doleful, dolorous, joyless, lachrymose, lugubrious, mournful, plaintive, sorry, woeful
black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, dark, depressing, desolate, dismal, dreary, gloomy, glum, gray (also grey), morose, saturnine, somber (or sombre), sullen
- with a gay toss of his coat over his shoulder, the dapper old gentleman set off for the party
hopeful, optimistic, rosy, sanguine
animated, chirpy, jaunty, lilting, lively, perky, sprightful, sprightly, vivacious
carefree, careless, cavalier, devil-may-care, easygoing, happy-go-lucky, insouciant, lighthearted, unconcerned
boon, gleeful, jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful
blissful, delighted, glad, gratified, happy, joyful, joyous, pleased, satisfied, tickled
joyless, sad, unhappy, unsatisfied
dull, lethargic, listless, sluggish, torpid
blue, brokenhearted, crestfallen, dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, disheartened, down, downcast, downhearted, droopy, forlorn, hangdog, heavyhearted, inconsolable, low, low-spirited, melancholy, mirthless, sorrowful
- the skylarkʼs gay song lifted me out of my gloom
- it was the era of the flappers, and young women were gay, bold, and defiant of convention
bouncy, bubbly, buoyant, crank [chiefly dialect], effervescent, exuberant, frolic, frolicsome, gamesome, high-spirited, vivacious
extroverted (also extraverted), outgoing, uninhibited
carefree, happy-go-lucky, insouciant, joyful, lighthearted, lively, sprightly
boisterous, raucous, rollicking, rowdy
giddy, light-headed, overexuberant, silly
ecstatic, euphoric, lyric, rapturous
audacious, bold, brash, brazen, impertinent, impudent, insolent, saucy
constrained, inhibited, repressed, restrained, subdued
impassive, phlegmatic, stoic (or stoical), stolid
Synonym Discussion of gay
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- a lively debate on the issues
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- an animated discussion of current events
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- a vivacious party host
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- a tuneful, sprightly musical
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- the gay spirit of Paris in the 1920s
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