bonny

Speech parts

1. bonny - Noun

2. bonny - Adjective

3. bonny - Adjective Satellite

4. Bonny - Proper noun

Meaning

Handsome; beautiful; pretty; attractively lively and graceful.

Gay; merry; frolicsome; cheerful; blithe.

A round and compact bed of ore, or a distinct bed, not communicating with a vein.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

comely fair bonnie winsome beautiful attractive sweet pretty handsome charming pleasing lovely good-looking sightly bunny
Show all synonyms

Antonyms

rotten frightful poor bad ordinary offensive
Show all antonyms

Phrases with the word

bonny lad

Derivatives

Bonnier bonniest

Examples

Am I no a bonny fighter. Robert Louis Stevenson

Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it's room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee! Walter Scott

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly. Emily Brontë

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad", I continued, "if you were a regular black, and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly. Emily Brontë

E'ening grey and a morning red, put on your hat or ye'll weet your head; e'ening red an' a morning grey is a taiken o' a bonny day. Scottish Proverb

Snailie, snailie, shoot out yer horn, and tell us if it'll be a bonny day the morn. Scottish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Bonnin bonniness Bonnington Bonny Doon bonny lad Bonnybridge