SUNNY (sunnier, sunniest)

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Irregular inflected forms: sunnier    , sunniest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does sunny mean? 

• SUNNY (adjective)
  The adjective SUNNY has 1 sense:

1. bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer

  Familiarity information: SUNNY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUNNY (adjective)

Comparative: sunnier   
Superlative: sunniest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer

Synonyms:

cheery; gay; sunny

Context example:

a sunny smile

Similar:

cheerful (being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits)

Derivation:

sunniness (the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom)

 Context examples 

It was already late in the afternoon, although still warm and sunny.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The sunny effect of the Sun is too far away for you to feel its warmth directly.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

That window is far smaller on sunny days than previously thought.

(Sunlight reduces effectiveness of dispersants used to clean up oil spills, National Science Foundation)

If he had any sorrow, 'it sat with its head under its wing', and he turned only his sunny side to the world.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"It is a bright, sunny morning, sir," I said.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Its leaves and shoots were green then, and the day being sunny, a pair of glass doors leading to the garden were thrown open.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He had even brushed Lucy's hair, so that it lay on the pillow in its usual sunny ripples.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

In 2002, however, the Dry Valleys experienced an abnormally warm and sunny summer season, triggering the greatest amount of glacial meltwater since 1969.

(Extreme melt season leads to decade-long ecosystem changes in Antarctica's Dry Valleys, National Science Foundation)

Anne found a nice seat for her, on a dry sunny bank, under the hedge-row, in which she had no doubt of their still being, in some spot or other.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

So through the sunny winter day the chivalry of England poured down through the dark pass of Roncesvalles to the plains of Spain.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)