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gay
Overview of noun gay
The noun gay has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. homosexual, homophile, homo, gay -- (someone who practices homosexuality; having a sexual attraction to persons of the same sex)
Overview of adj gay
The adj gay has 6 senses (first 6 from tagged texts)
1. (9) cheery, gay, sunny -- (bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer; "a cheery hello"; "a gay sunny room"; "a sunny smile")
2. (3) gay, jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful -- (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")
3. (3) gay -- (given to social pleasures often including dissipation; "led a gay Bohemian life"; "a gay old rogue with an eye for the ladies")
4. (3) brave, braw, gay -- (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")
5. (1) gay, festal, festive, merry -- (offering fun and gaiety; "a festive (or festal) occasion"; "gay and exciting night life"; "a merry evening")
6. (1) gay, queer, homophile -- (homosexual or arousing homosexual desires)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun gay
1 sense of gay
Sense 1
homosexual, homophile, homo, gay
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun gay
1 sense of gay
Sense 1
homosexual, homophile, homo, gay
=> gay man, shirtlifter
=> lesbian, tribade, gay woman
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun gay
1 sense of gay
Sense 1
homosexual, homophile, homo, gay
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
Antonyms of noun gay
Member Holonyms of noun gay
Substance Holonyms of noun gay
Part Holonyms of noun gay
Member Meronyms of noun gay
Substance Meronyms of noun gay
Part Meronyms of noun gay
Meronyms of noun gay
Holonyms of noun gay
Attributes of noun gay
Derived Forms of noun gay
Domain of noun gay
Domain Terms of noun gay
Familiarity of noun gay
gay used as a noun is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun gay
1 sense of gay
Sense 1
homosexual, homophile, homo, gay
> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> self
=> adult, grownup
=> adventurer, venturer
=> anomaly, unusual person
=> applicant, applier
=> appointee, appointment
=> capitalist
=> captor, capturer
=> changer, modifier
=> color-blind person
=> commoner, common man, common person
=> communicator
=> contestant
=> coward
=> creator
=> disputant, controversialist, eristic
=> engineer, applied scientist, technologist
=> entertainer
=> experimenter
=> expert
=> face
=> female, female person
=> individualist
=> inhabitant, habitant, dweller, denizen, indweller
=> native, indigen, indigene
=> innocent, inexperienced person
=> intellectual, intellect
=> juvenile, juvenile person
=> lover
=> leader
=> male, male person
=> money handler, money dealer
=> national, subject
=> nonreligious person
=> nonworker
=> peer, equal, match, compeer
=> perceiver, percipient, observer, beholder
=> percher
=> precursor, forerunner
=> primitive, primitive person
=> religious person
=> sensualist
=> traveler, traveller
=> unfortunate, unfortunate person
=> unwelcome person, persona non grata
=> unskilled person
=> worker
=> African
=> person of color, person of colour
=> Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid
=> White, white person, Caucasian
=> Amerindian, Native American
=> Slav
=> gentile
=> Jew, Hebrew, Israelite
=> Aries, Ram
=> Taurus, Bull
=> Gemini, Twin
=> Cancer, Crab
=> Leo, Lion
=> Virgo, Virgin
=> Libra, Balance
=> Scorpio, Scorpion
=> Sagittarius, Archer
=> Capricorn, Goat
=> Aquarius, Water Bearer
=> Pisces, Fish
=> abator
=> abjurer
=> abomination
=> abstainer, abstinent, nondrinker
=> achiever, winner, success, succeeder
=> acquaintance, friend
=> acquirer
=> active
=> actor, doer, worker
=> adjudicator
=> admirer
=> adoptee
=> adversary, antagonist, opponent, opposer, resister
=> advisee
=> advocate, advocator, proponent, exponent
=> affiant
=> agnostic, doubter
=> amateur
=> ancient
=> anti
=> anti-American
=> apprehender
=> appreciator
=> archaist
=> arrogator
=> assessee
=> asthmatic
=> authority
=> autodidact
=> baby boomer, boomer
=> baby buster, buster
=> bad guy
=> bad person
=> baldhead, baldpate, baldy
=> balker, baulker, noncompliant
=> bullfighter, toreador
=> bather
=> beard
=> bedfellow
=> bereaved, bereaved person
=> best, topper
=> biter
=> blogger
=> blond, blonde
=> bluecoat
=> bodybuilder, muscle builder, muscle-builder, musclebuilder, muscleman
=> bomber
=> brunet, brunette
=> buster
=> candidate, prospect
=> cardholder
=> case
=> cashier
=> celebrant, celebrator, celebrater
=> censor
=> chameleon
=> charmer, beguiler
=> child, baby
=> chutzpanik
=> closer
=> clumsy person
=> collector, aggregator
=> combatant, battler, belligerent, fighter, scrapper
=> complexifier
=> compulsive
=> computer user
=> contemplative
=> convert
=> copycat, imitator, emulator, ape, aper
=> counter
=> counterterrorist
=> crawler, creeper
=> creature, wight
=> creditor
=> cripple
=> dancer, social dancer
=> dead person, dead soul, deceased person, deceased, decedent, departed
=> deaf person
=> debaser, degrader
=> debtor, debitor
=> defecator, voider, shitter
=> delayer
=> deliverer
=> demander
=> dieter
=> differentiator, discriminator
=> disentangler, unraveler, unraveller
=> dissenter, dissident, protester, objector, contestant
=> divider
=> domestic partner, significant other, spousal equivalent, spouse equivalent
=> double, image, look-alike
=> dresser
=> dribbler, driveller, slobberer, drooler
=> drug user, substance abuser, user
=> dyslectic
=> ectomorph
=> effecter, effector
=> Elizabethan
=> emotional person
=> endomorph
=> enjoyer
=> enrollee
=> ethnic
=> explorer, adventurer
=> extrovert, extravert
=> faddist
=> faller
=> fastener
=> fiduciary
=> first-rater
=> follower
=> free agent, free spirit, freewheeler
=> friend
=> fugitive, runaway, fleer
=> gainer
=> gainer, weight gainer
=> gambler
=> gatekeeper
=> gatherer
=> good guy
=> good person
=> granter
=> greeter, saluter, welcomer
=> grinner
=> groaner
=> grunter
=> guesser
=> handicapped person
=> hater
=> heterosexual, heterosexual person, straight person, straight
=> homosexual, homophile, homo, gay
=> homunculus
=> hope
=> hoper
=> huddler
=> hugger
=> immune
=> insured, insured person
=> interpreter
=> introvert
=> Jat
=> jewel, gem
=> jumper
=> killer, slayer
=> relative, relation
=> kink
=> kneeler
=> knocker
=> knower, apprehender
=> large person
=> Latin
=> laugher
=> learner, scholar, assimilator
=> left-hander, lefty, southpaw
=> life
=> lightning rod
=> linguist, polyglot
=> literate, literate person
=> liver
=> longer, thirster, yearner
=> loose cannon
=> machine
=> mailer
=> malcontent
=> man
=> manipulator
=> man jack
=> married
=> masturbator, onanist
=> measurer
=> nonmember
=> mesomorph
=> mestizo, ladino
=> middlebrow
=> miracle man, miracle worker
=> misogamist
=> mixed-blood
=> modern
=> monolingual
=> mother hen
=> mouse
=> mutilator, maimer, mangler
=> namer
=> namesake
=> neglecter
=> neighbor, neighbour
=> neutral
=> nondescript
=> nonparticipant
=> nonpartisan, nonpartizan
=> nonperson, unperson
=> nonresident
=> nonsmoker
=> nude, nude person
=> nurser
=> occultist
=> optimist
=> orphan
=> ostrich
=> ouster, ejector
=> outcaste
=> outdoorsman
=> owner, possessor
=> pamperer, spoiler, coddler, mollycoddler
=> pansexual
=> pardoner, forgiver, excuser
=> partner
=> party
=> passer
=> personage
=> personification
=> perspirer, sweater
=> philosopher
=> picker, chooser, selector
=> pisser, urinator
=> planner, contriver, deviser
=> posturer
=> powderer
=> preserver
=> propositus
=> public relations person
=> pursuer
=> pussycat
=> quarter
=> quitter
=> radical
=> realist
=> rectifier
=> redhead, redheader, red-header, carrottop
=> registrant
=> reliever, allayer, comforter
=> repeater
=> rescuer, recoverer, saver
=> rester
=> restrainer, controller
=> revenant
=> rich person, wealthy person, have
=> right-hander, right hander, righthander
=> riser
=> romper
=> roundhead
=> ruler, swayer
=> rusher
=> scientist, man of science
=> scratcher
=> second-rater, mediocrity
=> seeder, cloud seeder
=> seeker, searcher, quester
=> segregate
=> sentimentalist, romanticist
=> sex object
=> shaker, mover and shaker
=> showman
=> signer, signatory
=> simpleton, simple
=> six-footer
=> skidder, slider, slipper
=> slave
=> slave
=> sleepyhead
=> sloucher
=> small person
=> smasher
=> smiler
=> sneezer
=> sniffer
=> sniffler, sniveler
=> snuffer
=> snuffler
=> socializer, socialiser
=> sort
=> sounding board
=> sphinx
=> spitter, expectorator
=> sport
=> sprawler
=> spurner
=> squinter, squint-eye
=> stifler, smotherer
=> stigmatic, stigmatist
=> stooper
=> struggler
=> subject, case, guinea pig
=> supernumerary
=> surrenderer, yielder
=> survivalist
=> survivor
=> suspect
=> tagger
=> tagger
=> tapper
=> tempter
=> termer
=> terror, scourge, threat
=> testator, testate
=> thin person, skin and bones, scrag
=> third-rater
=> thrower
=> tiger
=> totemist
=> toucher
=> transfer, transferee
=> transsexual, transexual
=> transvestite, cross-dresser
=> trier, attempter, essayer
=> turner
=> tyrant
=> undoer, opener, unfastener, untier
=> user
=> vanisher
=> victim, dupe
=> Victorian
=> visionary
=> visually impaired person
=> waiter
=> waker
=> walk-in
=> wanter, needer
=> ward
=> warrior
=> watcher
=> weakling, doormat, wuss
=> wiggler, wriggler, squirmer
=> winker
=> withholder
=> witness
=> worldling
=> yawner
Meronyms of noun gay
1 sense of gay
Sense 1
homosexual, homophile, homo, gay
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
HAS PART: personality
HAS PART: trait
HAS PART: character, fiber, fibre
HAS PART: thoughtfulness
HAS PART: responsibility, responsibleness
HAS PART: integrity
HAS PART: nature
HAS PART: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh
=> organism, being
HAS SUBSTANCE: tissue
HAS PART: cell
HAS PART: cell membrane, cytomembrane, plasma membrane
HAS PART: energid, protoplast
HAS PART: cytoplasm, cytol
HAS PART: cytoskeleton
HAS PART: microsome
HAS PART: Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, Golgi complex, dictyosome
HAS PART: nucleus, cell nucleus, karyon
HAS PART: nucleolus, nucleole
HAS PART: chromatin, chromatin granule
HAS PART: achromatin
HAS PART: linin
HAS PART: chromosome
HAS PART: nucleolus organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolar organiser
HAS PART: gene, cistron, factor
HAS PART: chromatid
HAS PART: centromere, kinetochore
HAS PART: telomere
HAS PART: organelle, cell organelle, cell organ
HAS PART: vacuole
HAS PART: body part
HAS PART: corpus
Holonyms of noun gay
Grep of noun gay
gay
gay-feather
gay-lussac
gay-lussac's law
gay lib
gay liberation movement
gay man
gay woman
gayal
gayfeather
gaylussacia
gaylussacia baccata
gaylussacia brachycera
gaylussacia frondosa
gayness
gaywings
joseph louis gay-lussac
margay
nosegay
sangay
tenzing norgay
Antonyms of adj gay
6 senses of gay
Sense 1
cheery, gay, sunny
INDIRECT (VIA cheerful) -> cheerless, uncheerful
Sense 2
gay, jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful
INDIRECT (VIA joyous) -> joyless
Sense 3
gay
INDIRECT (VIA indulgent) -> nonindulgent, strict
Sense 4
brave, braw, gay
INDIRECT (VIA colorful, colourful) -> colorless, colourless
INDIRECT (VIA colorful, colourful) -> colorless, colourless
Sense 5
gay, festal, festive, merry
INDIRECT (VIA joyous) -> joyless
Sense 6
gay, queer, homophile(prenominal)
INDIRECT (VIA heterosexual, homosexual) -> bisexual
INDIRECT (VIA homosexual, bisexual) -> heterosexual
Similarity of adj gay
6 senses of gay
Sense 1
cheery, gay, sunny
=> cheerful (vs. cheerless)
Sense 2
gay, jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful
=> joyous (vs. joyless)
Sense 3
gay
=> indulgent (vs. nonindulgent)
Sense 4
brave, braw, gay
=> colorful (vs. colorless), colourful (vs. colourless)
Sense 5
gay, festal, festive, merry
=> joyous (vs. joyless)
Sense 6
gay, queer, homophile(prenominal)
=> homosexual (vs. bisexual)(vs. heterosexual)
Pertainyms of adj gay
Attributes of adj gay
Domain of adj gay
1 of 6 senses of gay
Sense 4
brave, braw, gay
REGION>(noun) Scotland#1
Domain Terms of adj gay
Familiarity of adj gay
gay used as an adjective is common (polysemy count =6)
Grep of adj gay
gay
Grep of adv gay
gayly
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