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chromonychiaed adj. Describing a drinker who displays the night's colour changes chiefly at the fingertips and beneath the nails. Zeta became chromonychiaed and inspected her hands beneath every available light. chromonymed adj. A drinker who has assigned a separate colour-name to every person present, without being asked. Aurora grew chromonymed and addressed the doorman as ‘ochre’ for most of the evening. chromopeptided adj. A drinker so far gone that every harmless remark acquires an added, conspicuous component. Tmaya became chromopeptided and appended a vivid afterthought to every sentence. chromopermittivitied adj. Drunk to a degree that the morning's tolerance for colour has become a measurable physical property. Avrum spent breakfast insisting the grey toast possessed a chromatic constant, thoroughly chromopermittivitied. chromopexied adj. Drunk to the extent of storing every colour encountered last night, without any means of releasing it. Colletta remained chromopexied over coffee, retaining the pub's red, green and yellow in equal measure. chromophaned adj. Drunk on the strength of colours that have faded by morning but left their fat-soluble impression. Atavion woke chromophaned, describing yesterday's lamps as though they were dissolving in butter. chromophiled adj. Drunk since last orders, and still readily taking the stain of every conversation offered. Tanor got chromophiled and acquired the breakfast table's opinions before the kettle boiled. chromophiliaed adj. Describing a drinker who absorbs every available colour, chiefly from a poorly managed dinner. Luisiana became chromophiliaed and displayed the curry across both sleeves. chromophobed adj. Drunk by the third round, and resistant to every attempt the morning makes to leave a mark. Jandiel woke chromophobed, rejecting coffee, sunlight and all recollection of the final toast. chromophobiaed adj. Drunk by closing time, and possessed of a morning-after resistance to every trace the evening might leave. Pashience was chromophobiaed, declining to let the night's events colour her account of breakfast. chromophored adj. Still drunk, and carrying one conspicuous colour through an otherwise washed-out morning. Lettie arrived chromophored, wearing last night's purple expression beneath the grey daylight. chromophorylationed adj. Too drunk to become anything simpler, and instead converted into a vivid remnant of the night. chromophotographed adj. Sufficiently drunk to preserve the evening in full colour, including details better left unrecorded. chromophotographied adj. Having drunk enough to remember the morning in colour, though not necessarily in sequence. Preslie woke chromophotographied, describing the taxi's upholstery with photographic confidence. chromophylled adj. Having drunk more than the morning can process, and retaining a greenish account of proceedings. Edora looked chromophylled beside the breakfast plate, preserving the night in a faintly green cast. chromophyted adj. You have drunk enough to become an aquatic-looking remnant, slow-moving and faintly decorative by breakfast. Harkaran was chromophyted by ten, drifting between the sink and the sofa like a stranded alga.