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overplotted

overplotted adjective: having an excessively elaborate plot.

Adjective

overplotted (comparative more overplotted, superlative most overplotted)

  1. Having an excessively elaborate plot.
    • Pursuing its preposterous, overplotted premise, Time merrily confuses myth with fact--Romeo and Juliet and Arthur never lived, or they did so under other names.1988 July 1, Lawrence Bommer, “Channel This, or Die, Yuppie Scum!; Time in a Battle”, in Chicago Reader

Forms of overplotted

comparativemore overplotted
superlativemost overplotted

Origin of overplotted

From over- + plotted.

Words that rhyme with overplotted

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Questions about overplotted

What does overplotted mean?
Overplotted means having an excessively elaborate plot.
What part of speech is overplotted?
Overplotted is an adjective.

Words near overplotted in the dictionary

  1. overplentiful
  2. overplied
  3. overplies
  4. overplot
  5. overplots
  6. overplotted
  7. overplotting
  8. overplough
  9. overploughed
  10. overploughing
  11. overploughs

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