sunshiny

English

Alternative forms

• sunshiney

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌnˌʃaɪ.ni/; enPR: sŭnˈ-shīˌ-nē

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• Rhymes: -aɪni

Adjective

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.
   • 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.

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.

Derived terms

• sunshininess

Translations

illuminated by sunshine — see sunny

cheerful — see sunny