plotty

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adjective

Having a complicated plot.

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Meanings

adjectiveplotty (comparative plottier, superlative plottiest)

comparative plottier · superlative plottiest

  1. informalstorybroadcastingHaving 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

Origin

From plot + -y.

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APA

plotty. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/plotty

MLA

“plotty.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/plotty. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “plotty,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/plotty.

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