Sunny

/ˈsʌni/ · adjective

Meaning

(of weather or a day) Featuring a lot of sunshine..

Definitions by Sense

1. (of weather or a day) Featuring a lot of sunshine.
2. (of a place) Receiving a lot of sunshine.
3. (figuratively) Cheerful.
4. Of or relating to the sun; proceeding from, or resembling the sun; shiny; radiant.
5. (US, regional) sunny side up
6. A sunfish.

Example Sentences

Whilst it may be sunny today, the weather forecast is predicting rain.

the sunny side of a hill

I would describe Spain as sunny, but it's nothing in comparison to the Sahara.

a person with a sunny disposition

My decayed fair / A sunny look of his would soon repair.

A gleam of sun shining through the unsashed window, and chequering the dark workshop with a broad patch of light, fell full upon him, as though attracted by his sunny heart.

Unloved, and uncaressed, her childhood unbrightened by the sunny mirth of that age, her girlhood a gloomy period of austere seclusion […]

Sunak is a sunnier character than DeSantis, who could illuminate a stage by getting off it. He is also the more reliable friend of Ukraine. Other than that, their oneness is striking.

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Word Forms

• sunnier
• sunniest
• sunnies

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