'Sunny' definitions:
Definition of 'sunny'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Sunny'
From: GCIDE
- Sunny \Sun"ny\, a. [Compar. Sunnier; superl. Sunniest.]
- 1. Of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from, or resembling the sun; hence, shining; bright; brilliant; radiant. "Sunny beams." --Spenser. "Sunny locks." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
- Her blooming mountains and her sunny shores. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Cheerful; genial; as, a sunny disposition. [1913 Webster]
- My decayed fair A sunny look of his would soon repair. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'sunny'
From: GCIDE
- Sunfish \Sun"fish`\, n. (Zool.) (a) A very large oceanic plectognath fish (Mola mola, {Mola rotunda}, or Orthagoriscus mola) having a broad body and a truncated tail. (b) Any one of numerous species of perch-like North American fresh-water fishes of the family Centrachidae. They have a broad, compressed body, and strong dorsal spines. Among the common species of the Eastern United States are Lepomis gibbosus (called also bream, pondfish, pumpkin seed, and sunny), the blue sunfish, or dollardee (Lepomis pallidus), and the long-eared sunfish (Lepomis auritus). Several of the species are called also pondfish. (c) The moonfish, or bluntnosed shiner. (d) The opah. (e) The basking, or liver, shark. (f) Any large jellyfish. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'sunny'
From: GCIDE
- Pondfish \Pond"fish`\, n. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of American fresh-water fishes belonging to the family Centrarchid[ae]; -- called also pond perch, and sunfish. [1913 Webster]
- Note: The common pondfish of New England (Lepomis gibbosus) is called also bream, pumpkin seed, and sunny. See Sunfish. The long-eared pondfish ({Lepomis auritus}) of the Eastern United States is distinguished by its very long opercular flap. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sunny'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aestival,
- aglow,
- balmy,
- beaming,
- beamy,
- blithe,
- blithesome,
- blood-hot,
- blood-warm,
- blushing,
- bright,
- bright and sunny,
- brilliant,
- bubbly,
- buoyant,
- burning,
- calid,
- candescent,
- cheerful,
- cheery,
- chiliastic,
- chirk,
- chirpy,
- chirrupy,
- clarion,
- clear,
- cloudless,
- couleur de rose,
- ebullient,
- elated,
- equatorial,
- eupeptic,
- euphoric,
- exalted,
- exhilarated,
- fair,
- fine,
- flushed,
- flushing,
- friendly,
- gay,
- genial,
- glad,
- gladsome,
- gleaming,
- gleamy,
- glinting,
- glowing,
- halcyon,
- happy,
- high,
- hopeful,
- illuminant,
- in good spirits,
- in high spirits,
- incandescent,
- irradiative,
- irrepressible,
- jolly,
- joyful,
- joyous,
- lamping,
- laughing,
- Leibnizian,
- light as day,
- light-hearted,
- lightsome,
- luciferous,
- lucific,
- luciform,
- luke,
- lukewarm,
- luminant,
- luminative,
- luminiferous,
- luminificent,
- luminous,
- lustrous,
- mild,
- millenarian,
- millennialistic,
- mirthful,
- of good cheer,
- optimistic,
- orient,
- outgoing,
- perfectibilitarian,
- perfectionist,
- pleasant,
- radiant,
- rainless,
- riant,
- room-temperature,
- rose-colored,
- roseate,
- rosy,
- rutilant,
- rutilous,
- sanguine,
- sanguineous,
- Saturnian,
- shining,
- shiny,
- smiling,
- sparkling,
- starbright,
- starlike,
- starry,
- streaming,
- subtropical,
- suffused,
- summery,
- sunlit,
- sunshiny,
- temperate,
- tepid,
- thermal,
- thermic,
- toasty,
- tropical,
- unclouded,
- undarkened,
- unfrozen,
- upbeat,
- utopian,
- warm,
- warm as toast,
- warmish,
- winsome