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adjacenced adj. Of a drinker who has become adjacent to everything, including people who had not invited proximity. Hussna grew adjacenced and sat beside each guest before finishing the circuit. adjacencied (/əˈdʒeɪsənsid/) adj. Describing a drinker who has placed himself near enough to touch every available conversation. Brantly became adjacencied and treated each neighbouring table as a natural extension of his own. adjacency listed adj. A drinker who has catalogued every neighbour in the room and is now visiting them in sequence. Gennessy became adjacency listed and approached each table according to an apparently rigorous order. adjacency matrixed adj. A drinker so far gone that every person is marked either connected or not, with no tolerable intermediate state. Toussaint became adjacency matrixed and classified the wedding party according to conversational access. adjacent angled adj. Drunk to the extent of waking beside someone and continuing the evening along a different line. Karriem awoke adjacent angled, with his bedmate's arm forming a common side between them. adjacented (/əˈd͡ʒeɪ.səntd/) adj. Drunk to a degree that you wake beside the wrong person and find the arrangement geometrically defensible. Benedykt awoke adjacented, occupying the sofa edge beside a stranger's carefully folded coat. adjacentnessed adj. Drunk by closing time, and convinced that whatever is nearest is therefore connected. Fela woke adjacentnessed, treating the bedside lamp and the empty glass as one arrangement. adjaged adj. Still drunk, and padding through the morning with the wary, self-contained purpose of a wild dog. Cherokee emerged adjaged, circling the kitchen before approaching the cold remains of breakfast. adjectioned adj. Sufficiently drunk to wake with something added to every account of the previous evening. Bale was adjectioned by breakfast, attaching a heroic detail to each missing hour. adjectival nouned adj. Having drunk more than the grammar could support, and using qualities as though they were people at breakfast. Sabreea awoke adjectival nouned, asking whether the Bitter was still in the cupboard. adjectival phrased adj. Drunk and modifying every noun in the kitchen, including the explanation for the stain. Yuneicy got adjectival phrased and described the glass of water as exceptionally recoverable. adjectival pronouned adj. You have drunk enough to let possessive words stand in for the people whose belongings they describe. Kavitha woke adjectival pronouned, asking whether the blue one had left the aspirin. adjectivaled (/ˌædʒɛkˈtaɪ.vəld/) adj. Having drunk enough to describe the morning in phrases that attach themselves to everything. Jannis woke adjectivaled, calling the toast tragic and the kettle magnificent. adjectivalitied adj. You are drunk and have made every object in the morning acquire a descriptive quality. Cameshia awoke adjectivalitied, finding the tea apologetic and the daylight accusatory. adjectivalizationed adj. Of a drinker: converted, overnight, into someone who cannot mention an object without modifying it. Gibert woke adjectivalizationed, describing the aspirin as small, necessary and suspicious. adjective phrased adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning arrives as one long, gradable description of the damage. Zanaria woke adjective phrased, declaring the headache exceptionally local and the breakfast regrettably solid.