sunny
Syllables: sun·ny/ˈsʊni/UK/ˈsʌni/
sunny adjective: featuring a lot of sunshine.
Adjective
sunny (comparative sunnier, superlative sunniest)
- Featuring a lot of sunshine.
- Whilst it may be sunny today, the weather forecast is predicting rain.
- The forecast calls for a slight warming trend in the coming days, with sunny skies and daytime temperatures reaching the midteens on Sunday and Monday, when the men will hit the snowboard course.2022 February 4, John Branch, “U.S. snowboarder Jamie Anderson qualifies for the slopestyle final.”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2022
- Receiving a lot of sunshine.
- the sunny side of a hill
- I would describe Spain as sunny, but it's nothing in comparison to the Sahara.
- Cheerful.
- a person with a sunny disposition
- My decayed fair / A sunny look of his would soon repair.c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
- Antonyms:
- sunless
- Of or relating to the sun; proceeding from, or resembling the sun; shiny; radiant.
- sunny beams1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Visions of the Worlds Vanitie”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC
- the four winds blow in from every coast
Renownèd suitors, and her sunny locks
Hang on her temples like a golden fleecec. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
Adverb
sunny (not comparable)
Noun
sunny (plural sunnies)
- A sunfish.
Proper noun capitalized: Sunny
Sunny (plural Sunnys)
- A unisex given name.
- Sunny White was apprehended in Flathead County Friday on a warrant out of Lake County charging her with vehicular homicide while under the influence in the March 2023 death of 22-year-old Mika Westwolf.2023 October 24, Snejana Farberov, “Mom of kids named Aryan and Nation was on meth in hit-and-run death of Native American woman: cops”, in New York Post, archived from the original on 29 Oct 2023
- A surname.
- A diminutive of the male given name Sunil.
- A diminutive of the female given name Sunita.
- A diminutive of the unisex given name Sundeep.
sunny meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
sunny in Hindi
- weather, day
- धूपदार dhūpdār, आफताबी āphtābī
sunny in Tamil
- வெய்யிலாக
sunny in Urdu
- weather, day
- آفتابی āftābī, دھوپ دار dhūp-dār, آفتاب گوں āftāb-gū̃
sunny in Bengali
- হাসিখুশি, সূর্যতুল্য
More languagesFewer languages
- sunny in Malayalam
- സൂര്യപ്രകാശമുള്ള, തെളിച്ചമുള്ള, തെളിഞ്ഞ, മാനം തെളിഞ്ഞ
- sunny in Kannada
- ಬಿಸಿಲುಬಿದ್ದ, ಹದುಳಿಸಿದ, ಗೆಲುವಾಗಿರುವ, ಬೆಳಗುತ್ತಿರುವ
- sunny in Gujarati
- સની
- sunny in Odia
- ଖରାଟି kharāṭi
- sunny in Tagalog
- maaraw
- sunny in Arabic
- مُشْمِس mušmis, شَامِس šāmis
- sunny in Malay
- cerah
- sunny in Indonesian
- cerah
- sunny in Persian
- آفتابی âftâbi
- sunny in Thai
- แดดร้อน dàet-rón
- sunny in Vietnamese
- nắng
Examples of sunny in a sentence
- 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.1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. (please specify the chapter number)”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, London: Chapman...
- Unloved, and uncaressed, her childhood unbrightened by the sunny mirth of that age, her girlhood a gloomy period of austere seclusion […]1849, The Literary Garland, page 244:
- Altman tweeted a sunny message after the combative announcement.2023 November 18, Blake Montgomery, Dani Anguiano, “OpenAI fires co-founder and CEO Sam Altman for allegedly lying to company board”, in...
Synonyms of sunny
Antonyms
Forms of sunny
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | sunnier |
| superlative | sunniest |
| Noun | |
| plural | sunnies |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Sunnys |
Origin of sunny
From Middle English sunni, from Old English *sunniġ. Cognate with West Frisian sinnich, Low German sünnig, sonnig, Dutch zonnig, German sonnig. Equivalent to sun + -y.
Words formed from sunny
Phrases with sunny
Words that rhyme with sunny
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Questions about sunny
- What does sunny mean?
- Sunny means featuring a lot of sunshine.
- What is sunny in Hindi?
- Sunny in Hindi is धूपदार (dhūpdār), आफताबी (āphtābī). See Sunny meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use sunny in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is sunny?
- Sunny can be an adjective, an adverb, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce sunny?
- Sunny is pronounced /ˈsʌni/ (UK).
Words near sunny in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sunny (page history and authors); Sunny (page history and authors); sunny (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sunny (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sunny (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); sunny (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sunny (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ଖରାଟି (Odia) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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