counterplot
- noun
- /ˈkaʊntərˌplɑt/
:
contraplot
- According to a local newspaper, the pageant depicted the coming of the French and the English to the colonial frontiers, the plots and counterplots, the uprising under Pontiac against the English, and the chief's betrayal.
- plots and counterplots
Examples
-
While he does not force particulars into conventional plots, his openness keeps him from generalizing his alternative perceptions into coherent counterplots.
Academic text (1991) -
Not all in positions of power see it this way, of course, and there are secret plans and counterplots a-plenty in order to both overthrow and maintain the current positions of power.
Blog text (22) -
Too many plots and counterplots.
Fiction book (1991) -
Adapted from Plots and Counterplots!
Academic text (2013) -
The woman's speech composes a separate story, even a counterplot, in which Sleeman figures more as tormentor than hero.
Academic text (1991) -
But as winter turned into spring and the plots and counterplots multiplied, the Arsenal's greatest asset would turn out to be one very strange little man.
Academic text (2011) -
And that by use of these documents... my agents traveled freely throughout Airstrip One... encouraging insurrection and organizing a massive counterplot... to destroy the innermost faction of the Oceanian leadership.
-
This situation isn't a result of a widespread conspiracy or counterplot to undermine aspiring talent—if it can even be said to be intentional at all.
Blog text (15) -
The detective discovered a counterplot that aimed to derail the original scheme.
-
In the midst of their rivalry, she devised a clever counterplot to outsmart her opponent.
Synonyms
678
8.2
A secret plan to trick or cheat people
13
4.3
A plan people keep secret to do something wrong
A secret idea or action to oppose another group's move
A project put forward to oppose another plan and offer a different solution
How Secret
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Counterplot comes from counter- meaning 'against' and plot meaning 'a secret plan', so think of it like a counterattack but with plans. So a counterplot is a secret plan made to stop or defeat another plan.