sunny

adj

1. Featuring a lot of sunshine.

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

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. (figuratively)Cheerful.

   “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 […]”

   “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.”

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”

adv

1. (US, not-comparable, regional)sunny side up

noun

1. A sunfish.

name

1. A unisex given name.

   “Sunny White was apprehended in Flathead County Friday on a warrant out of Lake County charging her with vehicular homicide while under the influence in the March 2023 death of 22-year-old Mika Westwolf.”

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.