sunny

See also: Sunny

English

sunny sky with clouds

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌni/

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• Rhymes: -ʌni
• Hyphenation: sun‧ny
• Homophone: sonny

Adjective

sunny (comparative sunnier, superlative sunniest)

1. (of weather or a day) Featuring a lot of sunshine.

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

2. (of a place) 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. (figuratively) Cheerful.

   a person with a sunny disposition

   • c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

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

   • 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. (please specify the chapter number)”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1849, The Literary Garland, page 244:

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

   • 2023 August 8, Janan Ganesh, “The oneness of Ron DeSantis and Rishi Sunak”, in Financial Times‎:

     Sunak is a sunnier character than DeSantis, who could illuminate a stage by getting off it. He is also the more reliable friend of Ukraine. Other than that, their oneness is striking.

   • 2023 November 18, Blake Montgomery, Dani Anguiano, “OpenAI fires co-founder and CEO Sam Altman for allegedly lying to company board”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     Altman tweeted a sunny message after the combative announcement.

4. Of or relating to the sun; proceeding from, or resembling the sun; shiny; radiant.
   • 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Visions of the Worlds Vanitie”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:

     sunny beams

   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

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

Synonyms

• (weather, day): bright; sunshiny
• (place): sunlit
• (person): bright, cheerful

Derived terms

• sunnily
• sunniness
• sunny-day flooding
• sunny side down
• sunny side up
• sunny uplands
• unsunny

 

Translations

weather, day

Alviri-Vidari: Vidari: افتوی (oftovi) Arabic: مُشْمِس (mušmis), شَامِس (ar) (šāmis) South Levantine Arabic: مشمّس (mšammes) Belarusian: со́нечны (sónječny) Breton: heoliek (br) Bulgarian: слъ́нчев (bg) (slǎ́nčev) Catalan: asolellat Chinese: Mandarin: 晴朗 (zh) (qínglǎng) Cornish: howlyek Czech: slunečný (cs) Dutch: zonnig (nl) Esperanto: suna Estonian: päikseline (et) Finnish: auringonpaisteinen (fi), aurinkoinen (fi) French: ensoleillé (fr) Galician: solleiro m Georgian: მზიანი (mziani) German: sonnig (de), heiter (de) Greek: έχει λιακάδα (échei liakáda) Hindi: धूपदार (dhūpdār), आफताबी (hi) (āphtābī) Hungarian: napos (hu) Indonesian: cerah (id) Irish: grianmhar Italian: soleggiato (it) m, soleggiata (it) f Japanese: 晴れた (ja) (はれた, hareta) Khmer: មានថ្ងៃ (mien tŋay), ចេញថ្ងៃ (cəɲ tŋay) Korean: 맑다 (ko) (makda), 화창하다 (ko) (hwachanghada) Lao: ແດດຮ້ອນ (dǣt hǭn) Latin: aprīcus Latvian: saulains Low German: German Low German: sünnig Luxembourgish: sonneg Macedonian: сончев m (sončev) Malay: cerah (ms) Mongolian: нарлаг (mn) (narlag) Old English: *sunniġ Persian: آفتابی (fa) (âftâbi) Plautdietsch: sonnich Polish: słoneczny (pl) Portuguese: ensolarado (pt), solarengo Romanian: însorit (ro) Romansch: sulegliv (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan), sulagliv (Sutsilvan, Puter, Vallader), sugliagleiv (Surmiran) Russian: со́лнечный (ru) (sólnečnyj) Sardinian: solianu Scottish Gaelic: grianach Serbo-Croatian: sùnčan (sh) Shor: кӱнниг (künnig) Slovak: slnečný (sk) Slovene: sončen (sl) Spanish: asoleado (es), soleado (es) Sundanese: lénglang Swedish: solig (sv) Tagalog: maaraw Thai: แดดร้อน (dàet-rón) Turkish: güneşli (tr) Ukrainian: со́нячний (sónjačnyj) Urdu: آفتابی (ur) (āftābī), دھوپ دار (dhūp-dār), آفتاب گوں (āftāb-gū̃) Vietnamese: nắng (vi) Welsh: heulog (cy) Yiddish: זוניק (zunik)

place

Bulgarian: слънчев (bg) (slǎnčev) Catalan: asolellat Dutch: zonnig (nl) Esperanto: suna, sunplena Finnish: aurinkoinen (fi) French: ensoleillé (fr) Galician: solleiro, sollío, solloso Greek: ηλιόλουστος (el) (ilióloustos) Ancient: προσήλιος (prosḗlios) Hungarian: napfényes (hu), napos (hu) Italian: soleggiato (it) m, soleggiata (it) f Latin: aprīcus Latvian: saulains Macedonian: сончев (sončev) Maori: matanui (of the aspect of land) Plautdietsch: sonnich Portuguese: ensolarado (pt) Serbo-Croatian: sùnčan (sh) Ukrainian: со́нячний (sónjačnyj)

cheerful

Bulgarian: весел (bg) (vesel), лъчезарен (bg) (lǎčezaren) Catalan: radiant Dutch: zonnig (nl) Finnish: iloinen (fi), aurinkoinen (fi) Latvian: saulains Macedonian: весел m (vesel) Portuguese: ensolarado (pt) Serbo-Croatian: vȅseo (sh), rȁdostan (sh)

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Azerbaijani: (please verify) günəşli

Adverb

sunny (not comparable)

1. (US, regional) sunny side up

Noun

sunny (plural sunnies)

1. A sunfish.