plotty

English

Etymology

plot +‎ -y

Adjective

plotty (comparative plottier, superlative plottiest)

  1. (informal, of a book, film, story) Having a complicated plot.
    • 2021 September 6, Eleanor Henderson, “Why Did Two People So Poorly Matched Stay Together So Long?”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:
      “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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