ungodly hours

When most sleep

Ungodly hours are times of day—usually very late at night or very early in the morning—when reasonable people would be asleep.

The phrase implies inconvenience or unreasonableness: Who's calling at this ungodly hour?

She's been working ungodly hours to meet the deadline.

The singular ungodly hour works the same way.

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midnight · burning the midnight oil · quiet · tired · graveyard shift · night shift · grogginess · alarm · wake up call · exhaustion · dead of night · irritability · before dawn · fatigue · sleep deprivation · evening · silence · clock

Opposites
social normalcy of time

ungodly hoursnine-to-five

Regular office schedule

business hours · regular hours · office hours · working hours · banker's hours

Family

ungodly, hour, godly, godless, goddess, godlike, godhood, godliness, ungodliness

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G