overplotted

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adjective

Having an excessively elaborate plot.

OriginEnglish plotted ← Middle English over- ← Old English ofer- →
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Meanings

adjectiveoverplotted (comparative more overplotted, superlative most overplotted)

comparative more overplotted · superlative most overplotted

  1. broadcastingHaving 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

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Germanic*uber
  4. Old Englishofer-
  5. Middle Englishover-
  6. Englishover-
  7. Englishplotted
  8. Englishoverplotted

From over- + plotted.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with overplotted

spotteddottedcarotidpottedknottedparotidbesottedunspottedbedottedbeknottedbicarotidintracarotidmisallottedpreallottedproglottidshottedsubcarotidtranscarotidundottedunknottedunpotted
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Cite this entry
APA

overplotted. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overplotted

MLA

“overplotted.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overplotted. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overplotted,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overplotted.

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