Synonyms of the word

gay

• adj. (dated) Happy, joyful, and lively.
• adj. (dated) Festive, bright, or colourful.
• adj. (obsolete) Sexually promiscuous (of either gender).
• adj. Homosexual.
• adj. A pejorative.
• adj. (of a dog's tail) Upright or curved over the back.
• n. (chiefly in plural or attributive) A homosexual, especially a male homosexual; see also lesbian.
• n. (obsolete) An ornament.
• v. (transitive, dated, uncommon) To make happy or cheerful.
• v. (transitive, uncommon) To cause (an issue, especially AIDS) to be associated with homosexual people.
• n. The letter —, which stands for the sound /ɡ/, in Pitman shorthand.

brave

• adj. Strong in the face of fear; courageous.
• adj. (obsolete) Having any sort of superiority or excellence.
• adj. Making a fine show or display.
• n. (dated, possibly offensive) A Native American warrior.
• n. (obsolete) A man daring beyond discretion; a bully.
• n. (obsolete) A challenge; a defiance; bravado.
• v. (transitive) To encounter with courage and fortitude, to defy.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To adorn; to make fine or showy.

cheerful

• adj. Noticeably happy and optimistic.
• adj. Bright and pleasant.

cheery

• adj. (often sarcastic) In a good mood, happy, cheerful.

colorful

• adj. Possessing prominent and varied colors.
• adj. Interesting, multifaceted, energetic, distinctive.
• adj. (euphemistic) Profane, obscene, offensive (usually in the phrase colourful language).

colourful

• adj. British spelling standard spelling of colorful.

festal

• adj. festive, relating to a festival or feast.

festive

• adj. Having the atmosphere, decoration, or attitude of a festival, holiday, or celebration.
• adj. In the mood to celebrate.

homo

• n. (colloquial, often pejorative) A homosexual.
• n. (uncountable, dated, US, Canada) Homogenized milk with a high butterfat content.
• adj. (colloquial, sometimes pejorative) Of or pertaining to homosexuality.
• adj. (not comparable, Canada, US) Homogenized; almost always said of milk with a high butterfat content.

homophile

• adj. (dated) Homosexual, gay or lesbian, having a sexual or romantic preference for persons of one's own gender;…
• adj. (chiefly historical) Of or pertaining to the “homophile movement”, a gay activist movement.
• n. (dated) A homosexual, a gay man or lesbian, one who has a sexual or romantic preference for persons of…

homosexual

• adj. (of a person or animal) Sexually attracted primarily to other members of the same sex. Being either a…
• adj. (of a romantic or sexual act or relationship) Between two people of the same gender or same sex; gay.
• adj. Intended for or used by homosexuals, as a nightclub, a bar, etc.
• n. A person who is attracted solely or primarily to others of the same sex.

individual

• n. A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
• n. (law) A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.
• n. An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.
• n. (statistics) An element belonging to a population.
• adj. Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.
• adj. Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.

indulgent

• adj. Disposed or prone to indulge, humor, gratify, or yield to one's own or another's desires, etc., or to…

jocund

• adj. Jovial; exuberant; lighthearted; merry and in high spirits; exhibiting happiness.

jolly

• adj. Full of high and merry spirits; jovial.
• n. (Britain, dated) A pleasure trip or excursion.
• n. (slang, dated) A marine in the English navy.
• adv. (Britain, dated) very, extremely.
• v. (transitive) To amuse or divert.

jovial

• adj. (obsolete) Pertaining to Jove or Zeus; Jovian.
• adj. (obsolete) Pertaining to the planet Jupiter; Jovian.
• adj. (astrology, obsolete) Under the influence of the planet Jupiter (considered a source of happiness).
• adj. Merry; cheerful and good-humored.

joyous

• adj. Full of joy; happy.

merry

• adj. Jolly and full of high spirits.
• adj. Festive and full of fun and laughter.
• adj. Brisk.
• adj. Causing laughter, mirth, gladness, or delight.
• adj. (euphemistic) drunk; tipsy.

mirthful

• adj. filled with mirth.

mortal

• adj. Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
• adj. Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
• adj. Fatally vulnerable; vital.
• adj. Of or relating to the time of death.
• adj. Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
• adj. Human; belonging to man, who is mortal.
• adj. Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Very drunk; wasted; smashed.
• n. A human; someone susceptible to death.

person

• n. An individual; usually a human being.
• n. The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.
• n. (law) Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.
• n. (law) The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.
• n. (grammar) A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom…
• n. (biology) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa, Anthozoa, etc.; also,…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
• v. (transitive, gender-neutral) To man.

queer

• adj. (now slightly dated) Weird, odd or different; whimsical.
• adj. (slightly dated) Slightly unwell (mainly in to feel queer).
• adj. (colloquial) Homosexual.
• adj. (colloquial) Not heterosexual: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, etc.
• adj. (broadly) Pertaining to sexual behaviour or identity which does not conform to conventional heterosexual…
• n. (colloquial) A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities.
• n. (colloquial) A person of any non-heterosexual sexuality or sexual identity.
• n. (colloquial, vulgar, derogatory) General term of abuse, casting aspersions on target's sexuality; compare…
• n. (definite, with "the", informal, archaic) Counterfeit money.
• v. (transitive) To render an endeavor or agreement ineffective or null.
• v. (Britain, dialect, dated) To puzzle.
• v. (slang, dated) To ridicule; to banter; to rally.
• v. (slang, dated) To spoil the effect or success of, as by ridicule; to throw a wet blanket on; to spoil.
• v. (social sciences) To reevaluate or reinterpret (a work) with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender,…
• adv. Queerly.

somebody

• pron. Some unspecified person.
• n. A recognised person, a celebrity.

someone

• pron. Some person.
• n. A partially specified but unnamed person.

soul

• n. (religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and…
• n. The spirit or essence of anything.
• n. Life, energy, vigor.
• n. (music) Soul music.
• n. A person, especially as one among many.
• n. An individual life.
• n. (mathematics) A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To endow with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.
• v. (obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance.

sunny

• adj. (of weather or a day) Featuring a lot of sunshine.
• adj. (of a place) Receiving a lot of sunshine.
• adj. (figuratively, of a person or a person's mood) Cheerful.
• adj. Of or relating to the sun; proceeding from, or resembling the sun; brilliant; radiant.
• adv. (US, regional) sunny side up.
• n. A sunfish.