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metacommunitied (/ˈmɛt.əˌkə.mjʊn.ɪt.id/) adj. Loosened by drink into treating every household, group chat and café table as one communicating neighbourhood. metacompactnessed adj. Emboldened by drink to declare the morning's scattered obligations compact enough to manage before noon. metacompilationed adj. Slowed by drink to repeatedly turn yesterday's thoughts into a larger, less reliable machine. metacompilered adj. Drunk and building systems for producing explanations of explanations, none suitable for immediate use. metacomplexed adj. Drunk to the point where the upper-molar corner of the morning becomes needlessly intricate. metacomputationed adj. Drunk enough to rewrite yesterday's decisions according to what they appear to mean this morning. Maynette was metacomputationed, transforming the evidence of the receipts into a new account. metaconcepted adj. Drunk past the point of needing a governing idea before attempting any ordinary conclusion. Dhatri woke metaconcepted and demanded the principle behind making tea. metaconditioned adj. Drunk beyond accepting that one morning's promise depends upon another promise, which depends upon sleep. Kortlan was metaconditioned, making coffee conditional on finding the coffee. metaconed adj. Drunk in a way that leaves one fixated on a small, sharp point at the back of the mouth. metaconflicted adj. Drunk, with the result that deciding whether to apologise becomes a separate argument. Davielle was metaconflicted, disputing the wisdom of apologising for the previous dispute. metaconglomerated adj. Drunk to a degree that yesterday's loose collection of memories has become one compressed, altered mass. Dillinger woke metaconglomerated, with the taxi, kebab and rain fused into one recollection. metaconided adj. Drunk to the extent of discovering a second, tender point beneath the obvious toothache. metaconjectured adj. Drunk on the strength of a theory that explains nearly every receipt, except the expensive one. Anajia was metaconjectured, confident about the evening apart from one unexplained purchase. metaconsensused adj. Drunk since last orders, and in agreement about what happened without agreeing what it meant. Keashia was metaconsensused: everyone accepted the taxi story, though nobody accepted responsibility. metaconstitutionalismed adj. Drunk by closing time, and philosophising about the government of rules not yet written. Mabel was metaconstitutionalismed, debating the proper authority of the morning-after constitution. metaconstitutioned adj. Drunk by the third round, and drafting rules from which tomorrow's rules might eventually be drafted. Trent was metaconstitutioned and proposed procedures for revising the household's procedures.