OVERNIGHT Synonyms: 9 Similar and Opposite Words

overnight

adjective

Definition of overnight next

as in midnight

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Recent Examples of overnight Conditions will go downhill dramatically Sunday evening into the overnight hours as the storm intensifies quickly off the coast. —

Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 21 Feb. 2026 A couple living a couple hours away from us recently invited us for an overnight visit. —

Judith Martin, Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2026 The snow struck 15 people — four guides and 11 clients — on an overnight backcountry skiing trip that morning. —

Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 21 Feb. 2026 In other overnight attacks, Ukraine’s General Staff said its forces had also targeted a gas processing plant in Russia’s Samara region. —

Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for overnight

Recent Examples of Synonyms for overnight

midnight

Adjective

There will also be the first-ever post-midnight confetti release on New Year's Eve, with 2,000 pounds of red, white and blue confetti, Times Square said on its website.

— Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2025
News networks marked the moment with post-midnight ET special reports, with CNN and MSNBC featuring countdown clocks before switching their chyron banner headlines.

— Ted Johnson, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2025