Sunny

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pondfish \Pond"fish`\, n. (Zool.)
     Any one of numerous species of American fresh-water fishes
     belonging to the family {Centrarchid[ae]}; -- called also
     {pond perch}, and {sunfish}.
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     Note: The common pondfish of New England ({Lepomis gibbosus})
           is called also {bream}, {pumpkin seed}, and {sunny}.
           See {Sunfish}. The long-eared pondfish ({Lepomis
           auritus}) of the Eastern United States is distinguished
           by its very long opercular flap.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sunfish \Sun"fish`\, n. (Zool.)
     (a) A very large oceanic plectognath fish ({Mola mola}, {Mola
         rotunda}, or {Orthagoriscus mola}) having a broad body
         and a truncated tail.
     (b) Any one of numerous species of perch-like North American
         fresh-water fishes of the family {Centrachidae}. They
         have a broad, compressed body, and strong dorsal spines.
         Among the common species of the Eastern United States are
         {Lepomis gibbosus} (called also {bream}, {pondfish},
         {pumpkin seed}, and {sunny}), the blue sunfish, or
         dollardee ({Lepomis pallidus}), and the long-eared
         sunfish ({Lepomis auritus}). Several of the species are
         called also {pondfish}.
     (c) The moonfish, or bluntnosed shiner.
     (d) The opah.
     (e) The basking, or liver, shark.
     (f) Any large jellyfish.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sunny \Sun"ny\, a. [Compar. {Sunnier}; superl. {Sunniest}.]
     1. Of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from, or
        resembling the sun; hence, shining; bright; brilliant;
        radiant. "Sunny beams." --Spenser. "Sunny locks." --Shak.
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     2. 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.
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              Her blooming mountains and her sunny shores.
                                                    --Addison.
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     3. Cheerful; genial; as, a sunny disposition.
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              My decayed fair
              A sunny look of his would soon repair. --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sunny \Sun"ny\, n. (Zool.)
     See {Sunfish}
     (b) .
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sunny
       adj 1: abounding with sunlight; "a bright sunny day"; "one shining
              norming"- John Muir; "when it is warm and shiny" [syn:
               {bright}, {shining}, {shiny}, {sunshiny}]
       2: bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer; "a cheery
          hello"; "a gay sunny room"; "a sunny smile" [syn: {cheery},
           {gay}]
       [also: {sunniest}, {sunnier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  129 Moby Thesaurus words for "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