sunstruck
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4.8
- adjective
- /ˈsʌnstrʌk/
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bañado por el sol
- The day is sunstruck; the sidewalk leads her to a bank, a utilities office, and then, further north, along a roadside mall whose pay telephone she passes without slowing, without thinking, even.
Examples
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Jenny dashed off wings, curved breasts, swallows' tails in rapid dozens; she lived in a sunstruck Mexican village, and she made her living painting exactly the same bird again and again, and she was never coming back: it was too nice knowing just what would happen next.
Fiction book (1993) -
The colonel paced across the room, sat on the arm of a chair by the window, gazing out through the palmetto fronds at the empty sunstruck street.
Fiction book (2002) -
The whole thing was just a frightened, sunstruck dream.
Fiction book (1991) -
They were passing a sunstruck green park, with bronze statues of swaggering Finnish poets and mood-stricken Finnish dramatists.
Fiction book (1996) -
Although Impressionism's sunstruck vaporization of form had already challenged daylight's hold on clarity of outline, unsettling some of its viewers, night has an even greater claim on the power to infiltrate and obscure form.
Academic text (2005) -
On a bright summer afternoon, the children played in the sunstruck meadow filled with colorful wildflowers.
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She took a moment to admire the sunstruck landscape, where the golden rays illuminated the hills beautifully.
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As they walked along the sunstruck beach, the warmth of the sunlight made the sand inviting and comfortable.
Synonyms
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1.0
Sunlight shines on it
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2.8
Having bright sunlight and a warm, happy feeling
3
4.1
Full of warm bright sunlight
Antonyms
How Sunny
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word sunstruck mixes sun and struck, meaning 'hit', so it feels like something has been 'hit by the sun' and is full of bright light. That's why we call a person, mountain, or painting sunstruck when it is covered in sunlight.