sunshiny

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Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
15
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈsʌnˌʃaɪ.ni/

Definition of sunshiny

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. 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

  1. 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.”
  2. (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.”
  3. (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.”

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Etymology

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

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