sunshinyadj.
/ˈsʌnʃʌɪni/, U.S. /ˈsənˌʃaɪni/ 1. Resembling sunshine in colour or brightness; = sunny adj. 3. rare before 19th cent.
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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [adjective] > of or relating to sunlight > as bright as the sun
sunnisha1413
sunnyc1500
sun-bright1579
sunshiny1590
sun-like?1593
sunbeamed1598
sunshining1629
sun-clad1637
sunbeamy1821
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. viii. sig. G8v The fruitfull-headed beast, amazd At flashing beames of that sunshiny shield, Became stark blind.
1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 19 The house had still within and without the same sunshiny cleanliness.
1841 R. Browning Pippa Passes iii, in Bells & Pomegranates No. I 13/1 If you killed one Of those sunshiny beetles.
1862 M. E. Braddon Lady Audley's Secret I. iii. 56 Her beautiful smile, and sunshiny ringlets!
1920 N. Bartley Gorgeous Girl iii. 43 Johanna, the maid, began brushing the sunshiny hair.
1998 BBC Good Food Sept. 55/2 Vibrant sunshiny tones of tomatoes, green beans and peppers.
2014 Daily Mail (Nexis) 30 Apr. The British actor donned a sunshiny yellow get-up.
2. Lit or warmed by sunshine; = sunny adj. 2. Also in figurative contexts.
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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [adjective] > of or relating to sunlight > exposed to or illumined by
repercuss?1440
sunny?1440
sunned1565
sunshiny1600
sun-clad1637
sun-lighted1737
sunlit1784
unshaded1802
sunlight1819
shadeless1837
1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xvi. ix. 282 Sunshinie hils, dales hid from Phœbus raies.
1788 F. E. Boscawen Let. 22 Feb. in C. F. Aspinall-Oglander Admiral's Widow (1942) 129 Mr. Sayer's and your kind offer to inhabit now and then for a night or two your pretty sunshiny chamber.
1802 W. Wordsworth Stanzas Thomson's Castle Indolence 26 Retired in that sunshiny shade he lay.
1880 B. Disraeli Endymion II. xii. 126 It did not yet occur to Endymion that his garden could not always be sunshiny.
1921 J. Anthony Gang i. 8 To step out into the sunshiny area was to put one's foot in still another, brighter world.
1998 J. Holms Bad Vibes vii. 87 He led the way through the main part of the gallery into a sunshiny room beyond.
3. Full of or characterized by sunshine; = sunny adj. 1. Also in figurative contexts.
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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [adjective] > of or relating to sunlight > bright with or characterized by sunshine
sun-brightOE
sunnya1400
sunshining1566
sunshine1578
sunshiny1606
sun-drenched1864
sun-bathed1897
1606 R. Chambers tr. P. Numan Miracles lately Wrought 48 It was a very faire and cleere Sunne-shyny day.
1649 N. Hardy Divine Prospective 15 The wettest Seed-time of a pious Life, shall end in the sun-shiny harvest of a peacefull Death.
1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. x. i. 452 In warm Sun-shiny Weather.
1787 W. Beckford Spanish Jrnl. 22 Dec. (1954) 298 It poured hard all night, but is now blue and sunshiny.
1854 H. Miller Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) xiv. 305 A bright sunshiny sky.
1888 C. M. Doughty Trav. Arabia Deserta I. 542 Every morrow the sun-shiny heat calls them abroad to the easy..labour of their simple lives.
1925 Amer. Mercury Aug. 420/1 On a bright, sunshiny morning in January I stepped off the stage of Shafter, Texas.
1972 J. Nash I can see Clearly Now (transcribed from song) It's gonna be a bright, bright, bright sunshiny day.
2013 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 27 Mar. 12 When I was young, I thought it was sunshiny all the time.
4. figurative and in figurative contexts. Expressing, evoking, or characterized by joy or happiness; cheering; cheerful; = sunny adj. 4.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > [adjective] > cheering or suggestive of cheerfulness
comfortative1377
comfortive1377
cheerfula1440
comfortablec1460
cheering1549
sunny1565
sunshine1594
heartsome1596
sprightly1598
livening1605
brightening1642
exhilarating1644
encheering1652
cheery1655
spiriting1671
sunshiny1686
riant1720
sonsy1721
genial1747
cheerfulizing1840
cheer-up1846
enlivening1862
exhilarative1864
exhilarant1866
exhilaratory1871
heartening1895
1686 Dialogue Philiater & Momus 45 I fear we must never expect more of those Sun-shiny Books, these last of the Cloudy and Malevolent sort being now so natural to you.
1722 S. Croxall tr. Æsop et al. Fables xli. 77 I know not what, a kind, warm, Sun-shiny Behaviour, rightly applied, would not be able to effect.
1774 H. Brooke Juliet Grenville (Dublin ed.) III. 151 Their late paradisiacal and sunshiny prospects were now wrapt..in an ever-during night.
1783 H. Cowley Bold Stroke for Husband ii. ii. 13 My dear gloomy cousin, where have you purchas'd that sunshiny look?
1820 S. T. Coleridge Lett., Conversat., & Recoll. I. vi. 27 I hope that this is a sunshiny spot in the national character.
1863 A. K. H. Boyd Graver Thoughts Country Parson viii. 125 Childhood looks sunshiny when we cast back our glance upon it.
1893 C. G. Leland Memoirs I. 71 A very pleasant and wonderfully polite and sunshiny boy.
1937 I. Gershwin I can't be bothered Now in Compl. Lyrics (1993) 269/1 Music is the magic that makes everything sunshiny.
2007 Daily Herald (Chicago) 10 May (N.W. Suburbs ed.) 5/1 She was an incredibly kind, caring and sunshiny person.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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