Stolid vs Sunny - What's the difference?
stolid | sunny |
Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility.
* 1857 , ", verse 2.
* 1898 , ,
* 1950 , Ray Bradbury, ,
(of weather or a day) Featuring a lot of sunshine.
(of a place) Receiving a lot of sunshine.
(figuratively, of a person or a person's mood) Cheerful.
* Shakespeare
Of or relating to the sun; proceeding from, or resembling the sun; brilliant; radiant.
* Spenser
* Shakespeare
(US, regional) sunny side up
As adjectives the difference between stolid and sunny
is that stolid is having or revealing little emotion or sensibility while sunny is (of weather or a day) featuring a lot of sunshine.As an adverb sunny is
(us|regional) sunny side up.As a noun sunny is
a sunfish.stolid
English
Adjective
(er)- Light laughs the breeze
- In her Castle above them —
- Babbles the Bee in a stolid Ear,
- Pipe the Sweet Birds in ignorant cadence —
- Ah, what sagacity perished here!
- They (Eloi) all failed to understand my gestures; some were simply stolid , some thought it was a jest and laughed at me.
- With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black.
sunny
English
Adjective
(er)- Whilst it may be sunny today, the weather forecast is predicting rain.
- the sunny side of a hill
- I would describe Spain as sunny , but it's nothing in comparison to the Sahara.
- a sunny disposition
- My decayed fair / A sunny look of his would soon repair.
- sunny beams
- sunny locks