sunshiny
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From sunshine + -y. By surface analysis, sun + shine + y.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
sunshiny (comparative more sunshiny, superlative most sunshiny)
- 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.
- (figurative) Beautiful and bright, as if illuminated by sunshine; radiant; beaming; glowing; resplendent; shining.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- The blazing brightneſſe of her beauties beame,
And glorious light of her ſunſhyny face
To tell, were as to ſtriue against the ſtreame.
- (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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Translations[edit]
illuminated by sunshine — see sunny
cheerful — see sunny