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over- +‎ plotted

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overplotted (comparative more overplotted, superlative most overplotted)

  1. (drama) Having an excessively elaborate plot.
    • 1988 July 1, Lawrence Bommer, “Channel This, or Die, Yuppie Scum!; Time in a Battle”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
      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.