sunshiny

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

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sunshiny (comparative more sunshiny, superlative most sunshiny)

  1. Sunny; having, characterised by, full of, or illuminated by sunshine.
    • 1858, Charles Reade, Jack of all Trades:
      There are men that roll through life, like a fire-new red ball going across Mr. Lord's cricket-ground on a sunshiny day []
    • 1998, Jonathan Langley, Collins Bedtime Treasury of Nursery Rhymes and Tales, page 55:
      A sunshiny shower
      Won't last half an hour.
  2. (figurative) Beautiful and bright, as if illuminated by sunshine; radiant; beaming; glowing; resplendent; shining.
  3. (figurative) Cheerful; happy; pleasant.
    a sunshiny disposition
    Flowers can make any room sunshiny.
    • 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
      He had always been a sunshiny sort of boy, but that sun was gone now, buried behind heavy banks of cloud which were still building.

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