Sunny vs Sandy - What's the difference?
sunny | sandy |
(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
Covered with sand.
Sprinkled with sand.
Like sand, especially in texture.
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, passage=Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.}}
Having the colour of sand.
As adjectives the difference between sunny and sandy
is that sunny is featuring a lot of sunshine while sandy is covered with sand.As nouns the difference between sunny and sandy
is that sunny is a sunfish while Sandy is shortened form of Sand Dancer.As an adverb sunny
is sunny side up.As a proper noun Sandy is
a diminutive of the male given name Alexander.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