Dictionary

sunshiny en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈsʌnˌʃaɪ.ni/
• (Southern-England) audio
• sŭnˈ-shīˌ-nē

Etymology

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

Meanings

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 […] 1858, Charles Reade, Jack of all Trades:
   • A sunshiny shower / Won't last half an hour. 1998, Jonathan Langley, Collins Bedtime Treasury of Nursery Rhymes and Tales, page 55:
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. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
   • He to her lept vvith deadly dreadfull looke, / And her ſunſhynie helmet ſoon vnlaced, / Thinking at once both head and helmet to haue raced. 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 11, page 242:
3. (figuratively) Cheerful; happy; pleasant.
   • 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. 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
   • Flowers can make any room sunshiny.
   • a sunshiny disposition

Forms

Deriveds

sunshininess