sunly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Sun; solar.
adj
Sane.
adv
In a sunly manner.
Example Sentences
- "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 [...]"
- "Hopes that beam the sunliest, Like the wavelet's silver crest, [...]"
Etymology
From Middle English sonnelych, sunnelich, from Old English sunlīċ (“of the sun, solar”). Equivalent to sun + -ly.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
sunlier (comparative)
more sunly (comparative)
sunliest (superlative)
most sunly (superlative)