sunny

sunny
    adj 1: bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer; "a
           cheery hello"; "a gay sunny room"; "a sunny smile" [syn:
           {cheery}, {gay}, {sunny}]
    

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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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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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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Sunny \Sun"ny\, n. (Zool.)
   See {Sunfish}
   (b) .
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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