sunshiny

From sunshine +‎ -y; surface analysis, sun +‎ shine +‎ y.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌnʃaɪni/

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• Rhymes: -aɪni

sunshiny (comparative more sunshiny, superlative most sunshiny)

1. Sunny, full of sunshine.
   • 1858, Charles Reade, Jack of all Trades

     There are men that roll through life like a fire-new red ball going across Mr. Lord's cricket ground on a sunshiny day […]

2. Bright, as though with sunshine; shining.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:

     The blazing brightneſſe of her beauties beame,
     And glorious light of her ſunſhyny face
     To tell, were as to ſtriue against the ſtreame.

3. Cheerful, happy.

   Flowers can make any room sunshiny.

   • 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:

     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.

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