GAY Copy link • GAYCheerful, Vid: Bright, etc. (of colors, dress, etc.), clarus (bright; e.g., color): lucidus: splendidus (e.g., lucida vestis, Plin.; splendida vestis, Petronius): nitidus (bright): laetus (cheerful; nitida, laeta, opposed to horrida, inculta; Cic., Or., 11): varius (having several colors; hence, by inference,” gay;” of dress, etc.).