sunny

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: sun=ny

CIDE DICTIONARY

sunny, a. 

•  Of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from, or resembling the sun; hence, shining; bright; brilliant; radiant.  [1913 Webster]
•  Exposed to the rays of the sun; brightened or warmed by the direct rays of the sun; as, a sunny room; the sunny side of a hill.  [1913 Webster]

  "Her blooming mountains and her sunny shores."  [1913 Webster]
•  Cheerful; genial; as, a sunny disposition.  [1913 Webster]

  "My decayed fair
  A sunny look of his would soon repair."  [1913 Webster]

sunny, n. 

 See Sunfish (b).  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

sunny, adj. (sunnier, sunniest)
1 a bright with sunlight. b exposed to or warmed by the sun.
2 cheery and bright in temperament.

Idiom

the sunny side
1 the side of a house, street, etc. that gets most sun.
2 the more cheerful aspect of circumstances etc. (always looks on the sunny side).

Derivative

sunnily adv. sunniness n.

THESAURUS

sunny

Leibnizian, Saturnian, aestival, aglow, balmy, beaming, beamy, blithe, blithesome, blood-hot, blood-warm, blushing, bright, bright and sunny, brilliant, bubbly, buoyant, burning, calid, candescent, cheerful, cheery, chiliastic, chirk, chirpy, chirrupy, clarion, clear, cloudless, couleur de rose, ebullient, elated, equatorial, eupeptic, euphoric, exalted, exhilarated, fair, fine, flushed, flushing, friendly, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, gleaming, gleamy, glinting, glowing, halcyon, happy, high, hopeful, illuminant, in good spirits, in high spirits, incandescent, irradiative, irrepressible, jolly, joyful, joyous, lamping, laughing, light as day, light-hearted, lightsome, luciferous, lucific, luciform, luke, lukewarm, luminant, luminative, luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, lustrous, mild, millenarian, millennialistic, mirthful, of good cheer, optimistic, orient, outgoing, perfectibilitarian, perfectionist, pleasant, radiant, rainless, riant, room-temperature, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, rutilant, rutilous, sanguine, sanguineous, shining, shiny, smiling, sparkling, starbright, starlike, starry, streaming, subtropical, suffused, summery, sunlit, sunshiny, temperate, tepid, thermal, thermic, toasty, tropical, unclouded, undarkened, unfrozen, upbeat, utopian, warm, warm as toast, warmish, winsome

ROGET THESAURUS

sunny

Cheerfulness

N cheerfulness, geniality, gayety, l'allegro, cheer, good humor, spirits, high spirits, animal spirits, flow of spirits, glee, high glee, light heart, sunshine of the mind, sunshine of the breast, gaiete de coeur, bon naturel, liveliness, life, alacrity, vivacity, animation, allegresse, jocundity, joviality, jollity, levity, jocularity, mirth, merriment, hilarity, exhilaration, laughter, merrymaking, heyday, rejoicing, marriage bell, nepenthe, Euphrosyne, sweet forgetfulness, optimism, self complacency, hedonics, hedonism, cheerful, happy, cheery, cheerly, of good cheer, smiling, blithe, in spirits, in good spirits, breezy, bully, chipper, in high spirits, in high feather, happy as the day is long, happy as a king, gay as a lark, allegro, debonair, light, lightsome, light hearted, buoyant, debonnaire, bright, free and easy, airy, janty, jaunty, canty, hedonic, riant, sprightly, sprightful, spry, spirited, spiritful, lively, animated, vivacious, brisk as a bee, sparkling, sportive, full of play, full of spirit, all alive, sunny, palmy, hopeful, merry as a cricket, merry as a grig, merry as a marriage bell, joyful, joyous, jocund, jovial, jolly as a thrush, jolly as a sandboy, blithesome, gleeful, gleesome, hilarious, rattling, winsome, bonny, hearty, buxom, playful, playsome, folatre, playful as a kitten, tricksy, frisky, frolicsome, gamesome, jocose, jocular, waggish, mirth loving, laughter-loving, mirthful, rollicking, elate, elated, exulting, jubilant, flushed, rejoicing, cock-a-hoop, cheering, inspiriting, exhilarating, cardiac, cardiacal, pleasing, palmy, cheerfully, Int, never say die!, come!, cheer up!, hurrah!, hence loathed melancholy!, begone dull care!, away with melancholy!, a merry heart goes all the day, as merry as the day is long, ride si sapis.

Heat

N heat, caloric, temperature, warmth, fervor, calidity, incalescence, incandescence, glow, flush, fever, hectic, phlogiston, fire, spark, scintillation, flash, flame, blaze, bonfire, firework, pyrotechnics, pyrotechny, wildfire, sheet of fire, lambent flame, devouring element, adiathermancy, recalescence, summer, dog days, canicular days, baking, heat, white heat, tropical heat, Afric heat, Bengal heat, summer heat, blood heat, sirocco, simoom, broiling sun, insolation, warming, sun, pyrology, thermology, thermotics, thermodynamics, thermometer, calorie, gram-calorie, small calorie, kilocalorie, kilogram calorie, large calorie, British Thermal Unit, B, T, U, therm, quad, degrees Kelvin, kelvins, degrees centigrade, degrees Celsius, degrees Fahrenheit, hot, warm, mild, genial, tepid, lukewarm, unfrozen, thermal, thermic, calorific, fervent, fervid, ardent, aglow, sunny, torrid, tropical, estival, canicular, steamy, close, sultry, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, oppressive, reeking, baking, red hot, white hot, smoking hot, burning, hot, piping hot, like a furnace, like an oven, burning, hot as fire, hot as pepper, hot enough to roast an ox, hot enough to boil an egg, fiery, incandescent, incalescent, candent, ebullient, glowing, smoking, live, on fire, dazzling, in flames, blazing, in a blaze, alight, afire, ablaze, unquenched, unextinguished, smoldering, in a heat, in a glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweat, sudorific, sweltering, sweltered, blood hot, blood warm, warm as a toast, warm as wool, volcanic, plutonic, igneous, isothermal, isothermic, isotheral, not a breath of air, whirlwinds of tempestuous fire.

Light

N light, ray, beam, stream, gleam, streak, pencil, sunbeam, moonbeam, aurora, day, sunshine, light of day, light of heaven, moonlight, starlight, sunlight, daylight, broad daylight, noontide light, noontide, noonday, noonday sun, glow, glimmering, glint, play of light, flood of light, phosphorescence, lambent flame, flush, halo, glory, nimbus, aureola, spark, scintilla, facula, sparkling, emication, scintillation, flash, blaze, coruscation, fulguration, flame, lightning, levin, ignis fatuus, luster, sheen, shimmer, reflexion, reflection, gloss, tinsel, spangle, brightness, brilliancy, splendor, effulgence, refulgence, fulgor, fulgidity, dazzlement, resplendence, transplendency, luminousness, luminosity, lucidity, renitency, nitency, radiance, radiation, irradiation, illumination, actinic rays, actinism, Roentgen-ray, Xray, photography, heliography, photometer, optics, photology, photometry, dioptrics, catoptrics, chiaroscuro, clairobscur, clear obscure, breadth, light and shade, black and white, tonality, reflection, refraction, dispersion, refractivity, shining, luminous, luminiferous, lucid, lucent, luculent, lucific, luciferous, light, lightsome, bright, vivid, splendent, nitid, lustrous, shiny, beamy, scintillant, radiant, lambent, sheen, sheeny, glossy, burnished, glassy, sunny, orient, meridian, noonday, tide, cloudless, clear, unclouded, unobscured, gairish, garish, resplendent, transplendent, refulgent, effulgent, fulgid, fulgent, relucent, splendid, blazing, in a blaze, ablaze, rutilant, meteoric, phosphorescent, aglow, bright as silver, light as day, bright as day, light as noonday, bright as noonday, bright as the sun at noonday, actinic, photogenic, graphic, heliographic, heliophagous, a day for gods to stoop and men to soar, dark with excessive bright.