bonny

Synonyms

fair pretty pleasant lively cheerful shapely buxom

Antonyms

dull unseemly ill-favored deformed

Bon"ny, a. [Spelled bonnie by the Scotch.] Etym: [OE. boni, prob. fr. F. bon, fem. bonne, good, fr. L. bonus good. See Bounty, and cf. Bonus, Boon.] 1. Handsome; beautiful; pretty; attractively lively and graceful. Till bonny Susan sped across the plain. Gay. Far from the bonnie banks of Ayr. Burns. 2. Gay; merry; frolicsome; cheerful; blithe. Be you blithe and bonny. Shak. Report speaks you a bonny monk, that would hear the matiSir W. Scott. Bon"ny, n. (Mining) Defn: A round and compact bed of ore, or a distinct bed, not communicating with a vein.

bonny - Similar Words

bony bonnily sonny nonny ebony conny bunny bonne binny ony