English Explanatory Dictionary

sunny

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Featuring a lot of sunshine.
  2. Receiving a lot of sunshine.
  3. Cheerful.
  4. Of or relating to the sun; proceeding from, or resembling the sun; shiny; radiant.
adv
  1. sunny side up
noun
  1. A sunfish.
name
  1. A unisex given name.
  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.

Pronunciation

/ˈsʌni/ en-us-sunny.ogg /ˈsʊni/ /sənːi/

Word forms

sunny sunnier sunniest sunnies Sunnys

Etymology

From Middle English sunni, from Old English *sunniġ. Cognate with West Frisian sinnich, Low German sünnig, sonnig, Dutch zonnig, German sonnig. Equivalent to sun + -y.

Synonyms

bright sunshiny sunlit cheerful

Antonyms

sunless

Derived words

semisunny sunnily sunniness sunnybell Sunny Corner sunny-day flooding Sunny Isles Sunny Isles Beach Sunnyside sunny side down sunny side up Sunny South sunny uplands Sunnyvale unsunny

Translations

Alviri-Vidari: افتوی Arabic: مُشْمِس Arabic: شَامِس Arabic: مشمّس Azerbaijani: günəşli Azerbaijani: günlü Belarusian: со́нечны Breton: heoliek Bulgarian: слъ́нчев Catalan: asolellat Chinese Mandarin: 晴朗 Cornish: howlyek Czech: slunečný Dutch: zonnig Esperanto: suna Esperanto: sunplena Estonian: päikseline Finnish: auringonpaisteinen Finnish: aurinkoinen French: ensoleillé Galician: solleiro Galician: sollío Galician: solloso Georgian: მზიანი German: sonnig German: heiter Greek: έχει λιακάδα Greek: ηλιόλουστος Hindi: धूपदार Hindi: आफताबी Hungarian: napos Hungarian: napfényes Indonesian: cerah Irish: grianmhar Italian: soleggiato Italian: soleggiata Japanese: 晴れた Khmer: មានថ្ងៃ Khmer: ចេញថ្ងៃ Korean: 맑다 Korean: 화창하다 Lao: ແດດຮ້ອນ Latin: aprīcus Latvian: saulains Low German: sünnig Luxembourgish: sonneg Macedonian: сончев Malay: cerah Mongolian: нарлаг Old English: sunniġ Persian: آفتابی Plautdietsch: sonnich Polish: słoneczny Portuguese: ensolarado Portuguese: solarengo
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