semiquantitationed
semiregularitied

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semiquantitationed adj. The state of being drunk and capable of measuring only part of what is plainly before you. semiquartiled adj. The condition of a drinker who has divided the evening into four parts and retained only one half. Deslynn became semiquartiled and announced that the evening was proceeding in quarters.
semiquaver rested adj. Reduced by drink to a pause lasting half as long as the silence it was intended to represent. semiquavered (/ˈsɛmiˌkweɪvə(ɹ)d/) adj. The drunkenness of one who delivers every remark as a brief note with two unnecessary tails. Jamyria grew semiquavered, punctuating each answer with two trailing qualifications. semiqueened adj. Softened by drink into a chess authority able to advance only in one direction. Loudon became semiqueened and moved towards every argument from the same side. semiquincentennialed adj. Sharpened by drink into commemorating an anniversary two and a half centuries overdue. semiquinoned adj. Loosened by drink into a transient radical, chemically intermediate and socially difficult to place. semiquintiled adj. Emboldened by drink to maintain a thirty-six-degree separation from everyone at the table. semiquoted adj. Slowed by drink to speak chiefly in single quotation marks, nested within an unfinished remark. semiradicaled adj. Drunk and only partly radical, retaining enough conventionality to concern nobody properly. Alamin became semiradicaled and proposed reform without specifying the institution. semiranted adj. Drunk to the point where a mild complaint acquires the duration of a public address. Zacai became semiranted over the placement of the condiment tray. semirealismed adj. Drunk enough to render the room recognisable, though with several details supplied by imagination. Lashaina grew semirealismed and sketched the bar with plausible but invented architecture. semirealitied adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing an actual occurrence from its convincing approximation. semireductioned adj. Drunk beyond complete reduction, retaining only the shorter, more reactive form of the evening. semiregular tessellationed adj. Drunk in a way that fills conversational space with several orderly shapes, none of them matching.
semiregularitied adj. Drunk, with the result that occasional lapses occur according to an almost respectable schedule.