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plotty en · ADJ

Etymology

From plot + -y.

Meanings

1. (informal, of a book, qualifier: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:

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