hangover

Other forms of hangover

plural

hangovers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hangover

What does hangover mean?

hangover means "disagreeable aftereffects from the use of drugs (especially alcohol)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hangover?

hangover has 3 syllables: han-go-ver. The stress falls on "han". In IPA it is /ˈhæˌŋoʊvɚ/.

What is another word for hangover?

Close synonyms include katzenjammer, holdover, holdover. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hangover a common word?

hangover is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.