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subphonemed adj. Sufficiently drunk to retain only fragments of words from the morning's necessary conversations. subphosphided adj. Having drunk enough to wake with fewer useful thoughts than the morning ordinarily contains. subphrased adj. Having drunk more than the evening could contain, and now speaking only in fragments of larger explanations. subphratried adj. You have drunk enough to divide the household into smaller, mutually suspicious camps before breakfast. 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.