Sunny vs Sunlight - What's the difference?
sunny | sunlight |
(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
All the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun, especially that in the visible spectrum that bathes the Earth.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (figuratively, figuratively) Brightness, hope; a positive outlook.
As nouns the difference between sunny and sunlight
is that sunny is a sunfish while sunlight is all the electromagnetic radiation given off by the sun, especially that in the visible spectrum that bathes the earth.As an adjective sunny
is (of weather or a day) featuring a lot of sunshine.As an adverb sunny
is (us|regional) sunny side up.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
Synonyms
* bright; sunshiny * (place) sunlit * (person) bright, cheerfulDerived terms
* sunnily * sunniness * sunny side up * unsunnyAdverb
(-)sunlight
English
(wikipedia sunlight)Noun
(-)Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight . Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}
