Sunny vs Sunly - What's the difference?
sunny | sunly |
(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
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Sun; solar.
* 1874 , Lew Wallace, The fair God :
* 1907 , Harper's magazine:
* 2001 , Carl M. Franklin, Carolyn Craig Franklin: Favorite Poems, Quotes and Hymns :
(by extension in contrast with moonly) Sane.
* 1964 , Norman Friedman, E. E. Cummings; the growth of a writer :
In a sunly manner.
* 1863 , James Wallis, David King, The British millennial harbinger :
As adjectives the difference between sunny and sunly
is that sunny is featuring a lot of sunshine while sunly is of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Sun; solar.As adverbs the difference between sunny and sunly
is that sunny is sunny side up while sunly is in a sunly manner.As a noun sunny
is a sunfish.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
(-)sunly
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- Aside he flung his sunly symbols. Like a falling star, from the Vale of Gods He dropp'd, like a falling star shot through the Shoreless space; like a golden morning reach'd The earth, —reach'd the lake.
- "Nay, The sun is single, but her eyes are twain, — Twain firmaments that mock with heavenlier hue The heavens' less lordly and less gracious blue, And lit with sunlier sunlight through and through."
- She agreed with Mark Twain that it "is the peacefulest, restfulest, sunliest , balmiest, dreamiest haven of refuge [...] the surface of the earth can offer."
- [...] than to win less never than alive less bigger than the least begin less littler than forgive it is most sane and sunly and more it cannot die than all the sky which only is higher than the sky [...]
Adverb
(en-adv)- Hopes that beam the sunliest , Like the wavelet's silver crest, [...]
