sunshiny
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 8
/ˈsʌnˌʃaɪ.ni/
Definition of sunshiny
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Sunny; having, characterised by, full of, or illuminated by sunshine.
“There are men that roll through life, like a fire-new red ball going across Mr. Lord's cricket-ground on a sunshiny day […]”
“A sunshiny shower / Won't last half an hour.”
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adj
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Sunny; having, characterised by, full of, or illuminated by sunshine.
“There are men that roll through life, like a fire-new red ball going across Mr. Lord's cricket-ground on a sunshiny day […]”
“A sunshiny shower / Won't last half an hour.”
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(figuratively)Beautiful and bright, as if illuminated by sunshine; radiant; beaming; glowing; resplendent; shining.
“The blazing brightneſſe of her beauties beame, / And glorious light of her ſunſhyny face / To tell, vvere as to ſtriue against the ſtreame.”
“He to her lept vvith deadly dreadfull looke, / And her ſunſhynie helmet ſoon vnlaced, / Thinking at once both head and helmet to haue raced.”
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(figuratively)Cheerful; happy; pleasant.
“a sunshiny disposition”
“Flowers can make any room sunshiny.”
“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.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From sunshine + -y. By surface analysis, sun + shine + y.
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