sunshiny

comparative more sunshiny · superlative most sunshiny · alternative sunshiney

1. Sunny; having, characterised by, full of, or illuminated by sunshine.

   A sunshiny shower / Won't last half an hour.

   1998, Jonathan Langley, Collins Bedtime Treasury of Nursery Rhymes and Tales, page 55

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   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

2. figurativelyBeautiful and bright, as if illuminated by sunshine; radiant; beaming; glowing; resplendent; shining.

   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

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   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

3. figurativelyCheerful; happy; pleasant.

   a sunshiny disposition

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   Flowers can make any room sunshiny.

   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