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Gayer

Gay \Gay\ (g[=a]), a. [Compar. Gayer; superl. Gayest.] [F. gai, perhaps fr. OHG. g?hi swift, rapid, G. g["a]h, j["a]h, steep, hasty; or cf. OHG. w?hi beatiful, good. Cf. Jay.]

  1. Excited with merriment; manifesting sportiveness or delight; inspiring delight; livery; merry.

    Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay.
    --Pope.

    Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed.
    --Gray.

  2. Brilliant in colors; splendid; fine; richly dressed.

    Why is my neighbor's wife so gay?
    --Chaucer.

    A bevy of fair women, richly gay In gems and wanton dress!
    --Milton.

  3. Loose; dissipated; lewd. [Colloq.]

    Syn: Merry; gleeful; blithe; airy; lively; sprightly, sportive; light-hearted; frolicsome; jolly; jovial; joyous; joyful; glad; showy; splendid; vivacious.

Wiktionary
gayer

a. (en-comparative of: gay) n. (context chiefly UK colloquial derogatory English) Somebody who is gay (in the sense of either homosexual or uncool).

Wikipedia
Gayer

Gayer may refer to:

  • John Gayer (disambiguation), various people
  • Karin Gayer (born 1969), Austrian writer
  • Ted Gayer, American economist

Usage examples of "gayer".

But I presume, that in this kind of Matter there is room for a greater Latitude in Style, when the close and the contracted Parts may seem rather to be forc'd in and affected, than those that are written in a gayer and more luxuriant Manner.

Sayed El Gayer, a lecturer in the Faculty of Petroleum and Mining at Egypt’s Suez University, who gained his Ph.

Spencer repeated the British Museum’s official line—that the plate was not old but had been introduced, probably deliberately, in Vyse’s time—and that El Gayer and Jones’s conclusions were ‘highly dubious’.

El Gayer had examined the plate in the laboratories at Imperial College London in 1989.

Joseph found the old man somewhat more subdued and withdrawn, but stronger and gayer in appearance than he had been at their last meeting.

I was almost a Castalian, a little gayer, coarser, and more superficial, perhaps, but happy and enthusiastic, full of high spirits.

The morning was fine and warm, the ground cool to the feet after the late rain, the hedges gayer and more green, the air clear, and everything fresh and healthful.

These latter necessaries hung upon the walls, which, in that portion of the establishment devoted to the lady of the caravan, were ornamented with such gayer and lighter decorations as a triangle and a couple of well-thumbed tambourines.

Never, probably, did invalids have gayer times than our two, after a week of solitary confinement.

The girl did not know why, but after that night the songs grew gayer, there seemed to be more sunshine everywhere her eyes looked, and her hands were never tired of helping others in various pretty, useful, or pleasant ways.