sunly

sunly adjective: of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Sun; solar.

Adjective

sunly (comparative sunlier or more sunly, superlative sunliest or most sunly)

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Sun; solar.
- Aside he flung his sunly symbols. Like a falling star, from the Vale of Gods He dropp'd, like a falling star shot through the Shoreless space; like a golden morning reach'd The earth, —reach'd the lake.1874, Lew Wallace, The fair God
- "Nay, The sun is single, but her eyes are twain, — Twain firmaments that mock with heavenlier hue The heavens' less lordly and less gracious blue, And lit with sunlier sunlight through and through."1907, Harper's magazine
(broadly) Sane.
- [...] than to win less never than alive less bigger than the least begin less littler than forgive it is most sane and sunly and more it cannot die than all the sky which only is higher than the sky [...]1964, Norman Friedman, E. E. Cummings; the growth of a writer

sunly (comparative sunlier or more sunly, superlative sunliest or most sunly)

In a sunly manner.
- Hopes that beam the sunliest, Like the wavelet's silver crest, [...]1863, James Wallis, David King, The British millennial harbinger

From Middle English sonnelych, sunnelich, from Old English sunlīċ (“of the sun, solar”). Equivalent to sun + -ly.

What does sunly mean?: Sunly means of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Sun; solar.
What part of speech is sunly?: Sunly can be an adjective or an adverb.

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