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subplotted

subplotted is the simple past and past participle of subplot.

Meaning of subplot

Verb

subplot (third-person singular simple present subplots, present participle subplotting, simple past and past participle subplotted)

  1. (transitive) To provide (a story) with a subplot.
    • In the pictures of places, too, an author uses economy; and for his plot, complicated and subplotted as it may seem, he cannot count on having vast stretches of eternity in which to elaborate forever.1965, Percival Hunt, The Gift of the Unicorn: Essays on Writing, page 70

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Questions about subplotted

What is subplotted the simple past and past participle of?
Subplotted is the simple past and past participle of subplot.

Words near subplotted in the dictionary

  1. subplicate
  2. subplicately
  3. subplocoid
  4. subplot
  5. subplots
  6. subplotted
  7. subplotter
  8. subplotters
  9. subplotting
  10. subploughzone
  11. subplowzone

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Adapted from Wiktionary: subplotted (page history and authors); subplot (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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