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

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The pandemic-era boom in sales has given way to a post-covid slump, and many companies are left feeling hungover. Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 22 Jan. 2025 The Celtics didn’t look emotionally hungover Monday afternoon. Jay King, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025 But while the official version speaks of a very hungover (and even feverish) Lou Reed being thoroughly incapacitated after having returned to the hotel at an ungodly hour, some branches of the legend claim label representatives actually lost him, and that for a while he was thought gone forever. Ana Leorne, SPIN, 31 Dec. 2024 As Queenie, navigating empty relationships and professional disappointments on a journey from self-sabotage to self-worth, Brown makes a whole person from a variety of attitudes — hopeful, hopeless, hungover, exuberant, fretful, thoughtful. Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for hungover 

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 14 Feb. 2025.

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