after midnight
Small hours begin
After midnight refers to the early morning hours following 12:00 AM, typically suggesting lateness or the deep of night.
The phrase often carries connotations of transgression, romance, or things that happen when normal routines have ended: Nothing good happens after midnight.
It can mark a threshold between acceptable evening activities and questionable late-night decisions.
- witching hourTime of supernatural activity
- moonNatural planetary satellite
- night shiftOvernight work period
- predawnBefore daybreak hours
- silenceTotal lack of sound
insomnia · nightlife · last call · constellations · hush · solitude · small hours · burning the candle · night owl · graveyard shift · early morning · red eye flight · dreams · creativity · dead of night · streetlights · empty streets · mystery
after midnightin broad daylight
Plainly visible to all
nine to five · regular hours · above board · out in the open · early to bed
after, midnight, midday, afternoon, midnights, midafternoon, afters, good afternoon