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subphthalocyanined adj. You are drunk and reduced, by morning, to a compact arrangement of bright but poorly connected impressions. subphylogenied adj. Of a drinker: reduced by the morning after to a small, branching history of remembered events. subphylumed adj. Of a drinker who has retained a lower classification of the self, but not the authority normally attached to it. Dini arrived subphylumed, technically present but unable to approve the proposed breakfast. subpictured adj. Describing a drinker who remembers the morning as a small image within a much larger blank. subpiled adj. A drinker who has added the morning's objects to an already unstable heap. subpixelled adj. The state of being drunk and reduced, the morning after, to separate coloured points of attention. subplaced adj. The condition of a drinker who has woken in a smaller part of the expected morning. subplacentaed adj. The drunkenness of one who wakes with the night's remaining sustenance attached to the wrong side of the morning. subplaned adj. Drunk by the third round, and steering as though the room were merely one section of a larger flight path. Zakai went subplaned and attempted to navigate the bar by taking a direct bearing through the tables. subplanned adj. Drunk since last orders, and confidently treating one small scheme as the whole evening's strategy. subplantigraded adj. Drunk by closing time, and walking almost flat-footed enough to challenge the furniture for stability. Paskel left subplantigraded, placing each foot with the confidence of a newly invented gait. subplated adj. Still drunk, and operating from a lower mental layer while announcing conclusions from above it. Melene got subplated and confidently corrected the menu from beneath several unrelated thoughts. subplatformed adj. Too drunk to distinguish the small stage from the larger platform it is supposed to support. Fines woke subplatformed, unable to distinguish the stage from its supporting boards. subplexused adj. Sufficiently drunk to mistake one small knot of connections for the entire network of the evening. subploted adj. Having drunk more than the main story can accommodate, and confidently supplying unnecessary complications. subplottered adj. You have drunk enough to produce several subsidiary schemes, each delivered as though it were the principal one. Christine became subplottered and offered four mutually exclusive plans for finding her missing umbrella.