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plotty

plotty adjective: having a complicated plot.

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

Forms of plotty

comparativeplottier
superlativeplottiest

Origin of plotty

From plot + -y.

Questions about plotty

What does plotty mean?
Plotty means having a complicated plot.
What part of speech is plotty?
Plotty is an adjective.

Words near plotty in the dictionary

  1. plotting out
  2. plotting room
  3. plotting rooms
  4. plottingly
  5. plottings
  6. plotty
  7. plotwise
  8. plotwork
  9. plotz
  10. plotzed
  11. plotzes

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