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adjective

Sunny adj. (compar. sunnier; superl. sunniest)

Of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from, or resembling the sun; hence, shining; bright; brilliant; radiant. "Sunny beams." "Sunny locks."

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."

Cheerful; genial; as, a sunny disposition. "My decayed fair A sunny look of his would soon repair."

noun

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

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Etymology of 'Sunny'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sunny" Quotes from Famous Books

... pleasant cots, and the little white church, and the fair walls of the castle on its low mound, and the day bright and sunny, all as aforetime, and Ralph looked on it all, and made no countenance of ...

— The Well at the World's End • William Morris

... dry, sunny summers (June to August) and mild, rainy winters (December to February) along coast; cold weather with snow or sleet periodically ...

— The 1998 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... sun-dial, blue upon its white-marble surface, marked four o'clock, but its edge was broken by the irregular silhouette of an encroaching rose-bush. The sun-dial in the midst of the wide, sunny garden, the old red-brick house among the elms—these were the most sharply defined elements of Mark Faraday's picture of home. Born in Italy, for most of his young life a sojourner in foreign lands, he yet remembered being utterly happy at "Aunt ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1915 - And the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... gained her wealth. Under free labor the North doubled its population, its manufactories, its riches and waxed mighty. Under slave-labor the South dwindled in wealth and became only the empty shell of a state. The spark fired at Fort Sumter kindled a conflagration that swept through the sunny South like a devastating fire and revealed its inner poverty. When four years had passed by the farmhouses and factories were ruins, the village was a heap, the town a desolation. Graveyards were as populous ...

— The Investment of Influence - A Study of Social Sympathy and Service • Newell Dwight Hillis

... regular rogues' gallery. Look—there is 'Nosey George'; it is time he was in again. And behind him is that cunning old 'drop' Ikey Samuels—I wish we could get him. Look at the other end of the first row. Isn't that 'Sunny Jim'? I hardly knew him. He's grown a beard since he's been out. We'll soon have it off again for him. He's got the impudence to scowl at us. He'll lay for you one of ...

— The Hampstead Mystery • John R. Watson

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