plotter

noun

plot·​ter ˈplä-tər 

: one that plots: such as

a

: a person who schemes or conspires

b

: a contriver of a literary plot

c

: a device for plotting

specifically : an instrument that graphs computer output

Examples of plotter in a Sentence

The police caught the plotters of the bank heist.

Recent Examples on the Web

Africa’s coup wave The case of the Free Officers Movement shows that plotters wait for clear signals that a coup is worth the risk. —Jonathan Powell, The Conversation, 15 Dec. 2025

Turning Stauffenberg, Henning von Tresckow and the other plotters from traitors (a word Trump used for the six senators) to heroes required a huge rethink of war, morality and law, not just in Germany but in the world. —Andreas Kluth, Twin Cities, 5 Dec. 2025

At the latter, socially inept Nick manages to make a conquest of Maxwell’s wife Cynthia (Lucy Punch), who’s disgruntled enough to appoint herself a third plotter against her own husband. —Dennis Harvey, Variety, 27 Nov. 2025

Though ultimately abandoned, the plotters went so far as to begin tracking Moraes’s movements, according to the New York Times. —Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 22 Nov. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1588, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for plotter

• blotter
• cotter
• daughter
• hotter
• mater
• otter
• rotter
• slaughter
• spotter
• squatter
• totter
• trotter