hungover

adjective

hung·​over ˈhəŋ-ˈō-vər How to pronounce hungover (audio)
variants or hung over
: suffering from a hangover

Examples of hungover in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Okay, fine: Of all the show's quest narratives, Earn's hungover search for his jacket is the least compelling. EW.com, 10 June 2024 As Queenie, a 25-year-old second-generation British Jamaican, Brown, who is in nearly every scene that isn’t a flashback and narrates throughout, makes a whole person out of a variety of attitudes — hopeful, hopeless, hungover, exuberant, fretful, thoughtful. Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024 Tall villas as creamy as squill spike the cliffs, and there's a modern marina full of boats dotted with drying swimsuits and hungover yachters reading newspapers. Antonia Quirke, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 May 2024 The crews of both Bellamy and Roberts were stinking drunk or hungover when they were caught or killed. Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024 On the far end is Indiana native David Lee Roth, looking both painfully hungover and ready for the next party. Stephen Deusner, SPIN, 14 Mar. 2024 The story of the late Candy arriving late and hungover to Splash's set in order to shoot that scene has bounced around for some time. Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 3 Mar. 2024 Prosecutors, meanwhile, allege Gutierrez-Reed was negligent, repeatedly intoxicated and hungover during the shoot, failing at the most basic responsibilities of her important job. Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2024 In his opening, Lewis did not raise another prosecution theory, that Gutierrez Reed was hungover or otherwise impaired on set. Gene Maddaus, Variety, 22 Feb. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1941, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of hungover was in 1941

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“Hungover.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hungover. Accessed 16 Jun. 2024.

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