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sunshiney

sunshiney is the alternative form of sunshiny.

Meaning of sunshiny

Adjective

sunshiny (comparative more sunshiny, superlative most sunshiny)

  1. Sunny; having, characterised by, full of, or illuminated by sunshine.
    • There are men that roll through life, like a fire-new red ball going across Mr. Lord's cricket-ground on a sunshiny day […]1858, Charles Reade, Jack of all Trades
  2. (figuratively) Beautiful and bright, as if illuminated by sunshine; radiant; beaming; glowing; resplendent; shining.
    • The blazing brightneſſe of her beauties beame, / And glorious light of her ſunſhyny face / To tell, vvere as to ſtriue against the ſtreame.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  3. (figuratively) Cheerful; happy; pleasant.
    • a sunshiny disposition

Forms of sunshiney

comparativemore sunshiney
superlativemost sunshiney

Origin of sunshiney

From sunshine + -y.

Questions about sunshiney

What is sunshiney the alternative form of?
Sunshiney is the alternative form of sunshiny.

Words near sunshiney in the dictionary

  1. Sunshine West
  2. sunshined
  3. sunshineful
  4. sunshineless
  5. sunshines
  6. sunshiney
  7. sunshininess
  8. sunshining
  9. sunshiny
  10. sunshot
  11. sunshower

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sunshiney (page history and authors); sunshiny (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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