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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SUN'NY, a. [from sun.] Like the sun; bright.
1. Proceeding from the sun; as sunny beams.
2. Exposed to the rays of the sun; warmed by the direct rays of the sun; as the sunny side of a hill or building.
Her blooming mountains and her sunny shores.
3. Colored by the sun.
Her sunny locks
Hang on her temples like a golden fleece.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer; "a cheery hello"; "a gay sunny room"; "a sunny smile" [syn: cheery, gay, sunny]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (sunnier; -est) Date: 14th century 1. marked by brilliant sunlight ; full of sunshine 2. cheerful, optimistic <a sunny disposition> 3. exposed to, brightened by, or warmed by the sun <a sunny room> • sunnily adverb • sunniness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (sunnier, sunniest) 1 a bright with sunlight. b exposed to or warmed by the sun. 2 cheery and bright in temperament. Phrases and idioms: the sunny side 1 the side of a house, street, etc. that gets most sun. 2 the more cheerful aspect of circumstances etc. (always looks on the sunny side). Derivatives: sunnily adv. sunniness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sunfish Sun"fish`, n. (Zo["o]l.) (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 Centrachid[ae]. 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 (L. pallidus), and the long-eared sunfish (L. 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sunny Sun"ny, n. (Zo["o]l.) See Sunfish (b) .

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. 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. Her blooming mountains and her sunny shores. --Addison. 3. Cheerful; genial; as, a sunny disposition. My decayed fair A sunny look of his would soon repair. --Shak.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pondfish Pond"fish`, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of American fresh-water fishes belonging to the family Centrarchid[ae]; -- called also pond perch, and sunfish. 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(sunnier, sunniest) 1. When it is sunny, the sun is shining brightly. The weather was surprisingly warm and sunny... There is a chance of sunny spells in the West. = bright ADJ 2. Sunny places are brightly lit by the sun. Most roses like a sunny position in a fairly fertile soil. ADJ 3. Someone who has a sunny disposition is usually cheerful and happy. He was a nice lad–bright and with a sunny disposition... The staff wear big sunny smiles. = cheery ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Bright, shining, brilliant, clear, unclouded, fine, sunshiny, luminous, radiant. 2. Bright, shining, brilliant. 3. Warm, mild, genial, pleasant. 4. Cheerful, joyful, happy.

Moby Thesaurus

Leibnizian, Saturnian, 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, 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, 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