counterplot

Speech parts

1. counterplot - Noun

2. counterplot - Verb

Meaning

To oppose, as another plot, by plotting; to attempt to frustrate, as a stratagem, by stratagem.

A plot or artifice opposed to another.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

counterplan confederacy game cabal cross frame angle plot defeat scheme arrest trick conspiracy blank foil
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Antonyms

support help aid improve benefit promote
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Hypernyms

game plot secret plan

Derivatives

counterplotted counterplotting

Examples

The familiar Cape Cod setting works its spell, and the cranky, colorful New England characters work their way through a deftly amusing and baffling story of plot and counterplot. Source: Internet

Wolfe likes to spin spiderwebs of plot and counterplot inside his impressively constructed universes, and fortunately his innate sense of humor keeps matters from getting impossibly dense. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

counterplead counterpleader counterpleading counterplotted counterplotter counterplotting