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Sunny vs Solar - What's the difference?

sunny | solar |

As adjectives the difference between sunny and solar

is that sunny is featuring a lot of sunshine while solar is of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from the sun; as, the solar system; solar light; solar rays; solar influence.

As nouns the difference between sunny and solar

is that sunny is a sunfish while solar is a loft or upper chamber forming the private accommodation of the head of the household in a medieval hall; a garret room.

As an adverb sunny

is sunny side up.

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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    solar

    English

    Etymology 1

    From Late (etyl) solar, from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from the sun; as, the solar system; solar light; solar rays; solar influence.
  • (astrology, obsolete) Born under the predominant influence of the sun.
  • * Dryden
    • and proud beside, as solar people are
  • Measured by the progress or revolution of the sun in the ecliptic; as, the solar year.
  • Produced by the action of the sun, or peculiarly affected by its influence.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • They denominate some herbs solar , and some lunar.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Out of the gloom , passage=[Rural solar' plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is ' solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}
    Synonyms
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    See also
    * day

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) solar, soler; from a conflation of (etyl) soler, . More at (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A loft or upper chamber forming the private accommodation of the head of the household in a medieval hall; a garret room.

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