Plotty

adj, slang

adj, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a complicated plot. informal

    "“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."

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"“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."

Etymology

From plot + -y.

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