hungover
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of hungover
First recorded in 1945–50
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
By the time Prohibition was repealed in 1933, America was left not sobered, but hungover by its own contradictions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Most people would have returned to teaching calculus to hungover sophomores, but Simons doubled down.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 15, 2025
Was Finley worried Doncic might be hungover when the Mavericks opened the finals against the Boston Celtics seven days later?
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2025
That changes, of course, when the hungover eldest child takes in his people's forced adulation, which is enough to persuade him he can run the world.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2024
The thing he could not speak of hungover the little green room like an invisible presence, ruining, it seemed to Ranofer, everything he did speak of.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
