The words Cheerful and Gay have synonymo (siar) meang. Fd out what nnects the two synonyms. Unrstand the difference between Cheerful and Gay.
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- GAY - CHEERFUL
- CHEERFUL AND GAY
- SENTENCE EXAMPL FOR CHEERFUL AND GAY OM SPIRG ENGLISH SOURC
- CHEERFUL / SYNONYMS / GAY
- TO BE GAY [CHEERFUL] MEANG, TO BE GAY [CHEERFUL] FN | ENGLISH COBUILD DICTNARY
- GAY
GAY - CHEERFUL
How are the words Cheerful and Gay related? Cheerful and Gay are synonymo, and they have mutual synonyms. * cheerful and gay *
One, she is dtr, two, gay, three, a quette - and ocsnally pretty. I found gay mean cheerful is ok to e as formal sayg?
Maybe you n e the word gay this sense wh re, ntexts where is not open to scere or wilful misterpretatn. gay ed to be synonymo wh happy/cheerful. But now is synonymo wh homosexualy.
If you e gay to mean the former, you have to be clear on the ntext.
CHEERFUL AND GAY
High qualy example sentenc wh “cheerful and gay” ntext om reliable sourc - Ludwig is the lguistic search enge that helps you to wre better English * cheerful and gay *
If you jt say, you are gay- someone would probably take as an sult and not that they are cheerful/happy.
Isn't odd; we still e gaiety, so why should a happy word like gay be so mistreated? If I say this, while gay has many meang, gaiety has only meang of joyfulns.
Generally, I would have said that any texts wrten before the 1950s the word "gay" would only have one meang: cheerful! Apparently, there are earlier referenc to "gay" meang "homosexual", read this article. I had no ia that the word gay was ed to scribe homosexuals so long ago!
SENTENCE EXAMPL FOR CHEERFUL AND GAY OM SPIRG ENGLISH SOURC
* cheerful and gay *
Old Lady: The Creole society ed to be so gay New Orleans! Gay don't seem f as an oppose of "hangs on by s fgernails" (barely managg to avoid danger or failure).
(pullg some other words om the Word Reference dictnary fns for "gay"). If gay origally meant cheerful/happy, why and how did bee a word to refer to homosexual people?
Here's what the (big) Oxford English Dictnary says:It seems most likely that the ‘homosexual’ sense A. To go gay): unhibed; wild, crazy; flamboyant.
CHEERFUL / SYNONYMS / GAY
to be gay [cheerful] translatn English - English Reverso dictnary, see also 'cheerfully, cheerfulns, cheer, cheer up', exampl, fn, njugatn * cheerful and gay *
The word started as a new phemism for "homosexual".
TO BE GAY [CHEERFUL] MEANG, TO BE GAY [CHEERFUL] FN | ENGLISH COBUILD DICTNARY
GAY meang: 1 : sexually or romantilly attracted to someone who is the same sex; 2 : of, relatg to, or ed by gay people * cheerful and gay *
It replaced the prev term "queer", which was no longer "polilly rrect": the 1970s one need to e "gay" stead. Usage example: a cheerful person who is always fun to work wh and a pleasure to be around Gay Gay adjective - Havg much high-spired energy and movement.
GAY
Usage example: upl dancg a gay, fast-paced jig Cheerful is a synonym for gay happy topic.
You n e "Cheerful" stead an adjective "Gay", if ncerns topics such as feelg, character tra, glad.