sunday scaries
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.25 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "VON: Sunday scaries is that feeling when the weekend's over, Monday's coming, you got stuff due, but you try to ignore it, you just sit there. / SARAH: (Laughs.) Yeah, thanks, Von. Sarah thinks . . . Von's right, Sunday scaries."
- "... with a heavy dose of rest, and Mondays consequently shifted to “do the bare minimum” days. As a result, I no longer experienced the so-called Sunday scaries on a regular basis. I looked forward to the week ahead with minimal stress."
- "I had a friend who suffered from what she called the Sunday scaries. Maybe you can relate. The Sunday scaries are when you get to Sunday evening and start to realize that the weekend is over and you're about to go back to work."
- "He enjoys it because it helps him combat the “Sunday Scaries”—that feeling on Sunday night when the anxiety and anticipation about the week ahead overpower your ability to be a normal human. I used to work every single Sunday night[…]"
- "During this particularly difficult bout of Sunday Scaries, I wondered if I could apply that same technique—to use the nerves of Sunday to remind myself that nothing was actually wrong, but just butterflies about the week ahead."
- "Seventy-six percent of us report feeling the “Sunday Scaries” or “Sunday Night Blues,” a feeling of anticipatory stress that leads to the constant checking of email, messages, and calendars in an oftenfutile attempt to alleviate the[…]"