plotty

[ plot-ee ]

adjective

, plot·ti·er, plot·ti·est.

1. characterized by the intricacies or complications of a plot or intrigue:

   a plotty novel whose narrative is hard to follow.

Other Words From

• plotti·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of plotty¹

First recorded in 1895–1900; plot + -y ¹

Example Sentences

That’s why it was interesting to be a little more plotty, to be more in some genres I’m mashing up.

From Seattle Times

Not even the matriarchal link at the story’s center feels satisfying, its good intention strangled by the plotty chaos.

From New York Times

That conundrum, honed to a sharp edge in the plotty first act, gets a satirical round table treatment in the second, when Icke puts Wolff before a panel of extreme antagonists on a portentous television program called “Take the Debate.”

From New York Times

But its pleasures and compensations lie not in plotty complications or some third-act twist, but in the humanity that suffuses an enterprise that is borne of obsession but achieves a form of transcendence.

From Washington Post

The plot — which is very plotty — is beside the point in “Quantumania,” which pulls from a variety of sources for both its themes and its visuals.

From Washington Post