sunshiny

English

sunshiny (comparative more sunshiny, superlative most sunshiny)

Sunny; characterised by, full of, or illuminated by sunshine.
- 1858, Charles Reade, Jack of all Trades:
  There are men that roll through life, like a fire-new red ball going across Mr. Lord's cricket-ground on a sunshiny day […]
- 1998, Jonathan Langley, Collins Bedtime Treasury of Nursery Rhymes and Tales, page 55:
  A sunshiny shower
  Won't last half an hour.
(figuratively) Bright, as though with sunshine; radiant; shining.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  The blazing brightneſſe of her beauties beame,
  And glorious light of her ſunſhyny face
  To tell, were as to ſtriue against the ſtreame.
(figuratively) Cheerful; happy; optimistic.
a sunshiny disposition

Flowers can make any room sunshiny.
- 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
  He had always been a sunshiny sort of boy, but that sun was gone now, buried behind heavy banks of cloud which were still building.

characterized by sunshine

cheerful, optimistic

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