Meanings
comparative sunlier · comparative more sunly · superlative sunliest · superlative most sunly
- Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Sun; solar.
She agreed with Mark Twain that it "is the peacefulest, restfulest, sunliest, balmiest, dreamiest haven of refuge [...] the surface of the earth can offer."
2001, Carl M. Franklin, Carolyn Craig Franklin: Favorite Poems, Quotes and Hymns2 more examples
Aside he flung his sunly symbols. Like a falling star, from the Vale of Gods He dropp'd, like a falling star shot through the Shoreless space; like a golden morning reach'd The earth, —reach'd the lake.
1874, Lew Wallace, The fair God"Nay, The sun is single, but her eyes are twain, — Twain firmaments that mock with heavenlier hue The heavens' less lordly and less gracious blue, And lit with sunlier sunlight through and through."
1907, Harper's magazine - broadlySane.
[...] than to win less never than alive less bigger than the least begin less littler than forgive it is most sane and sunly and more it cannot die than all the sky which only is higher than the sky [...]
1964, Norman Friedman, E. E. Cummings; the growth of a writer
comparative sunlier · comparative more sunly · superlative sunliest · superlative most sunly
- In a sunly manner.
Hopes that beam the sunliest, Like the wavelet's silver crest, [...]
1863, James Wallis, David King, The British millennial harbinger
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Old Englishsunlīċ“of the sun, solar”
- Middle Englishsonnelych
- Englishsunly
From Middle English sonnelych, sunnelich, from Old English sunlīċ (“of the sun, solar”). Equivalent to sun + -ly.
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sunly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sunly
“sunly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sunly. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sunly,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sunly.
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