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Sunny   /sˈəni/   Listen
adjective
Sunny  adj.  (compar. sunnier; superl. sunniest)  
1.
Of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from, or resembling the sun; hence, shining; bright; brilliant; radiant. "Sunny beams." "Sunny locks."
2.
Exposed to the rays of the sun; brightened or warmed by the direct rays of the sun; as, a sunny room; the sunny side of a hill. "Her blooming mountains and her sunny shores."
3.
Cheerful; genial; as, a sunny disposition. "My decayed fair A sunny look of his would soon repair."



noun
Sunny  n.  (Zool.) See Sunfish (b).






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Sunny" Quotes from Famous Books



... village where we were now living. Here the process still went on, and year after year saw a constantly diminishing number. A few years before our arrival Mona's last companion, a girl of her own age, had died, and ever since then this tuneful creature, possessed of the most sunny disposition we had ever known, had lived alone, with the knowledge that there was not another living being in ...
— Daybreak: A Romance of an Old World • James Cowan

... this resolution, he roused himself that sunny June morning, when he would far rather have sat over his study-fire and let the world go on without him—as he felt it would, easily enough— and walked down to the Castle, where, for the first time these ...
— A Noble Life • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

... his breath, and the splendour of June is forgotten. This October day was not after such a fashion; it was steeped in colour. Trees near at hand showed yellow and purple and red; the distant Jersey shore was a strip of warm, sunburnt tints, merged into one; over the river lay a sunny haze that was, as it were, threaded with gold; as if the sun had gone to sleep there and was in a dream; and mosses, and bushes, and lingering asters and golden-rod, on rocks or at the edges of the fields near at hand, gave the eye ...
— A Red Wallflower • Susan Warner

... this as the signal, immediately slipped round, opened the yard door took the herring out of his pocket, and threw it to Snarleyyow. The dog came to it, smelt it, seized it, and walked off with his ears and tail up, to the sunny side of the yard, intending to have a good meal; and Smallbones, who was afraid of Mr Vanslyperken catching him in the fact, came out of the yard, and hastened to his former post at the porch. He caught Babette's eye, coming down-stairs, and ...
— Snarley-yow - or The Dog Fiend • Frederick Marryat

... that there is a life after this one?" asked his wife; and for the first time a cloud seemed to pass over their sunny ...
— The Sand-Hills of Jutland • Hans Christian Andersen


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