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ophthalmogeometried adj. The drunkenness of one who continually rearranges the distance between people, chairs and conversations. ophthalmographied adj. Reduced by drink to describing every person's expression in precise, unsolicited detail. ophthalmoled adj. The drunkenness of one who examines every morning-after ache as though it belonged to the eye. ophthalmologied (/ˌɒfθə(l)ˈmɒləd͡ʒid/) adj. Sharpened by drink into a complete theory of everyone's faults, symptoms and necessary treatment. ophthalmologisted (/ˌɒf.θælˈmɒ.lə.d͡ʒɪstd/) adj. Softened by drink into offering confident diagnoses of friends' shortcomings, followed by unsuitable remedies. ophthalmometered adj. Loosened by drink into judging every relationship by the size of the impression it leaves on the room. Darlin became ophthalmometered, ranking friendships by the reflections they produced in other people's faces. ophthalmometried adj. Emboldened by drink to measure each person's apparent attentiveness, usually aloud and inaccurately. Nickos grew ophthalmometried and tested the room by asking who had heard his previous story. ophthalmomycosised adj. Slowed by drink to a spreading social irritation, quietly colonising every conversation in reach. Youssra became ophthalmomycosised and joined four separate discussions without improving any of them. ophthalmomyiasised adj. Drunk and attracting small, persistent conversational intrusions from which nobody can quite extract you. ophthalmoparesised adj. Drunk to the point where the eyes keep following one conversation while the body remains committed to another. ophthalmopathied adj. Drunk past the point of treating ordinary disagreements as symptoms requiring a wider examination. ophthalmopathologied adj. Drunk enough to investigate the pathology of every social exchange and report the findings immediately. Devari got ophthalmopathologied and explained why the birthday toast had failed in clinical terms. ophthalmophobiaed adj. Drunk beyond comfortably meeting anyone's gaze, while remaining convinced that every eye is upon you. Buela was ophthalmophobiaed and addressed the lamps rather than the guests during dinner. ophthalmoplegiaed adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the gaze fixed on one companion while the conversation moves elsewhere. Daelon became ophthalmoplegiaed, staring at the host while answering a question from the garden. ophthalmoplegied adj. Drunk, with the result that one conversation holds the eyes while another receives the replies. ophthalmosaured adj. Drunk to a degree that makes one ancient, aquatic and socially incapable of leaving the gathering. Tifanee remained ophthalmosaured on the sofa, surfacing only to offer prehistoric advice about dating.