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plottier

plottier is the comparative form of plotty.

Meaning of plotty

Adjective

plotty (comparative plottier, superlative plottiest)

  1. (informal, story) Having a complicated plot.
    • “Now Beacon, Now Sea,” his first memoir, is perhaps more straightforward than his voicey, plotty novels, and he indulges in novelistic and cinematic flourishes — cascading lists, lyrical still lifes — only occasionally.2021 September 6, Eleanor Henderson, “Why Did Two People So Poorly Matched Stay Together So Long?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Questions about plottier

What is plottier the comparative form of?
Plottier is the comparative form of plotty.

Words near plottier in the dictionary

  1. plottering
  2. plotters
  3. plottery
  4. plottest
  5. plotteth
  6. plottier
  7. plottiest
  8. plotting
  9. plotting out
  10. plotting room
  11. plotting rooms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: plottier (page history and authors); plotty (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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