sunny

adjective

1. 1

   Featuring a lot of sunshine.

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

   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.

   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.

2. 2

   Receiving a lot of sunshine.

   the sunny side of a hill

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

3. 3

   figurativeCheerful.

   a person with a sunny disposition

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

   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.

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

4. 4

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

   sunny beams

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

adverb

1. 1

   sunny side up

noun

1. 1

   A sunfish.

Forms

plural

sunnies

comparative

sunnier

superlative

sunniest