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sunshiny

/ˈsʌnˌʃaɪ.ni/

sunshiny adjective: sunny; having, characterised by, full of, or illuminated by sunshine.

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
    • A sunshiny shower / Won't last half an hour.1998, Jonathan Langley, Collins Bedtime Treasury of Nursery Rhymes and Tales, page 55
  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
    • He to her lept vvith deadly dreadfull looke, / And her ſunſhynie helmet ſoon vnlaced, / Thinking at once both head and helmet to haue raced.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 11, page 242
  3. (figuratively) Cheerful; happy; pleasant.
    • a sunshiny disposition
    • Flowers can make any room sunshiny.

Forms of sunshiny

comparativemore sunshiny
superlativemost sunshiny
alternative formsunshiney

Origin of sunshiny

From sunshine + -y. By surface analysis, sun + shine + y.

Words formed from sunshiny

Words that rhyme with sunshiny

Questions about sunshiny

What does sunshiny mean?
Sunshiny means sunny; having, characterised by, full of, or illuminated by sunshine.
What part of speech is sunshiny?
Sunshiny is an adjective.
How do you pronounce sunshiny?
Sunshiny is pronounced /ˈsʌnˌʃaɪ.ni/.

Words near sunshiny in the dictionary

  1. sunshineless
  2. sunshines
  3. sunshiney
  4. sunshininess
  5. sunshining
  6. sunshiny
  7. sunshot
  8. sunshower
  9. sunshowers
  10. sunskirter
  11. sunskirters

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