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plotless

American  
[plaht-lis] / ˈplɑt lɪs /

adjective

  1. having no plot; lacking a coherent or cohesive storyline.


Other Word Forms

  • plotlessly adverb
  • plotlessness noun

Example Sentences

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Kinsky’s roaming Sebald-esque novels like “Grove” and “River” have made her a household name in plotless fiction.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2024

This largely plotless book, in which elliptical fragments of autobiography are entwined with meditations on the cultural history of the color blue and loosely coalesce around the theme of depression, doesn’t exactly scream theater.

From New York Times • May 27, 2024

“Bob Fosse’s Dancin’” is, by the show’s own admission, almost plotless.

From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2023

Yet Twombly grasped, I think, that life is plotless, that meaninglessness reigns — hence, perhaps, his urge to deface, to vandalize.

From Washington Post • Jan. 14, 2023

Both movies were rather plotless and I had a hard time communicating the gist of them.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt