plotting

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plotting

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of plot

noun plottings

  1. countable, uncountable The act of scheming or making plots; machination.
  2. countable, uncountable The act of devising a plot for a work of fiction. It’s ironic that a movie so adventurous in its thinking should prove so imitative and pedestrian in its plotting, but that’s what we have in “M3GAN 2.0.”

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Closest in meaning: aforethought, planned, premeditated, conspiring, masterminding, planning, planing, rating, backtracking, organizing, trace, delineation, preparing, drawing, pointing, tally

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noun the act of scheming or making plots; machination

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@misc{plotting_2026,
  title = {plotting},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/plotting},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}