sunny

comparative sunnier · superlative sunniest

1. Featuring a lot of sunshine.

   Whilst it may be sunny today, the weather forecast is predicting rain.

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   The forecast calls for a slight warming trend in the coming days, with sunny skies and daytime temperatures reaching the midteens on Sunday and Monday, when the men will hit the snowboard course.

   2022 February 4, John Branch, “U.S. snowboarder Jamie Anderson qualifies for the slopestyle final.”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2022

   Spring was the sunniest season, and was the sunniest spring on record. It was the season with the fourth most sunshine on record, beaten by three summers: 1911, 1976 and 1995. Summer was then sunnier than average.

   2025 December 17, Helena Horton, “2025 is UK’s sunniest year on record, boosting solar power”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 21 Mar 2026

2. Receiving a lot of sunshine.

   the sunny side of a hill

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   I would describe Spain as sunny, but it's nothing in comparison to the Sahara.

3. figurativelyCheerful.

   a person with a sunny disposition

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   My decayed fair / A sunny look of his would soon repair.

   c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]

   A gleam of sun shining through the unsashed window, and chequering the dark workshop with a broad patch of light, fell full upon him, as though attracted by his sunny heart.

   1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. (please specify the chapter number)”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC

   Unloved, and uncaressed, her childhood unbrightened by the sunny mirth of that age, her girlhood a gloomy period of austere seclusion […]

   1849, The Literary Garland, page 244

   I feel dizzy / I feel sunny / I feel fizzy and funny and fine

   1957, Stephen Sondheim, “I Feel Pretty”, in West Side Story

   Sunak is a sunnier character than DeSantis, who could illuminate a stage by getting off it. He is also the more reliable friend of Ukraine. Other than that, their oneness is striking.

   2023 August 8, Janan Ganesh, “The oneness of Ron DeSantis and Rishi Sunak”, in Financial Times

   Antonyms: sunless

4. Of or relating to the sun; proceeding from, or resembling the sun; shiny; radiant.

   sunny beams

   1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Visions of the Worlds Vanitie”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC

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   the four winds blow in from every coast Renownèd suitors, and her sunny locks Hang on her temples like a golden fleece

   c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]

1. USnot comparableregionalsunny side up

plural sunnies

1. A sunfish.

plural Sunnys

1. A unisex given name.

   Sunny White was apprehended in Flathead County Friday on a warrant out of Lake County charging her with vehicular homicide while under the influence in the March 2023 death of 22-year-old Mika Westwolf.

   2023 October 24, Snejana Farberov, “Mom of kids named Aryan and Nation was on meth in hit-and-run death of Native American woman: cops”, in New York Post, archived from the original on 29 Oct 2023

2. A surname.
3. A diminutive of the male given name Sunil.
4. A diminutive of the female given name Sunita.
5. A diminutive of the unisex given name Sundeep.