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Pleasant vs Sunny - What's the difference?

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Pleasant is a related term of sunny.


As adjectives the difference between pleasant and sunny

is that pleasant is giving pleasure; pleasing in manner while sunny is (of weather or a day) featuring a lot of sunshine.

As nouns the difference between pleasant and sunny

is that pleasant is (obsolete) a wit; a humorist; a buffoon while sunny is a sunfish.

As an adverb sunny is

(us|regional) sunny side up.

pleasant

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Giving pleasure; pleasing in manner.
  • * Bible, Psalms cxxxiii. 1
    • Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
  • *, chapter=10
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant' as talking; just to watch was ' pleasant .}}

    Synonyms

    * nice

    Antonyms

    * unpleasant

    Derived terms

    * pleasantly * pleasantness * pleasantry

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A wit; a humorist; a buffoon.
    • (Webster 1913)

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    sunny

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (of weather or a day) Featuring a lot of sunshine.
    • Whilst it may be sunny today, the weather forecast is predicting rain.
  • (of a place) 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.
  • (figuratively, of a person or a person's mood) Cheerful.
    • a sunny disposition
  • * Shakespeare
    • My decayed fair / A sunny look of his would soon repair.
  • Of or relating to the sun; proceeding from, or resembling the sun; brilliant; radiant.
  • * Spenser
    • sunny beams
  • * Shakespeare
    • sunny locks

    Synonyms

    * bright; sunshiny * (place) sunlit * (person) bright, cheerful

    Derived terms

    * sunnily * sunniness * sunny side up * unsunny

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (US, regional) sunny side up

    • Noun

    (sunnies)
  • A sunfish.
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