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SUNNY
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Irregular inflected forms: sunnier , sunniest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer
Example:
a sunny smile
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
cheerful (being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits)
Derivation:
sunniness (the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom)
Context examples:
Imagine a place where the weather forecast is always the same: scorching temperatures, relentlessly sunny, and with absolutely zero chance of rain.
(Water Is Destroyed, Then Reborn in Ultrahot Jupiters, NASA/JPL)
The researchers discovered that the galloping gourmets are indeed big on bamboo—and are drawn to the same sunny, gently sloped spots as pandas.
(Belly up to the bamboo buffet: Pandas vs. horses, NSF)
He also babbled incoherently of his mother, of sunny Southern California, and a home among the orange groves and flowers.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Behind them was the dark forest they had passed safely through, although they had suffered many discouragements; but before them was a lovely, sunny country that seemed to beckon them on to the Emerald City.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
He had escaped me, and I must commence a destructive and almost endless journey across the mountainous ices of the ocean, amidst cold that few of the inhabitants could long endure and which I, the native of a genial and sunny climate, could not hope to survive.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
His money, which had ruined what might have been a great life, was divided amongst many bequests, an annuity to his valet, Ambrose, being amongst them; but enough has come to his sister, my dear mother, to help to make her old age as sunny and as pleasant as even I could wish.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
No, dear Sagittarius, I will be only translating the sunny aspects I see for you.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
We had heard nothing of him since he went away, that sunny afternoon.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Coming through the clear, sunny atmosphere among the green tree-tops, I thought it had sounded airily and sweetly; and the effect on my companions was the stranger.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Many nations are represented, many languages spoken, many costumes worn, and on a sunny day the spectacle is as gay and brilliant as a carnival.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
