Overplotted

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Having 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."

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"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."

Etymology

From over- + plotted.

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