Potted

adj, verb, slang

adj, verb, slang ·2 syllables ·Common ·Middle school level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of pot form-of, participle, past

    "potted meat"

Adjective
  1. 1
    Grown or planted in a plant pot. not-comparable

    "Granny waters her potted plants on the windowsill every day."

  2. 2
    Prepared in advance, as though preserved by potting. informal, not-comparable

    "The company released a potted statement."

  3. 3
    Drunk. not-comparable, slang
  4. 4
    Expressed in a relatively short, brief form. not-comparable

    "a potted history"

Adjective
  1. 1
    (British informal) summarized or abridged wordnet
  2. 2
    preserved in a pot or can or jar wordnet
  3. 3
    of plants; planted or grown in a pot wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
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Example

More examples

"The young plants are potted during the winter."

Etymology

From pot + -ed. Adjective meaning "prepared in advance" by analogy with potted meat (canned meat), first used in a published work by L. Susan Stebbing in her Pelican classic Thinking to some purpose (1939), where "potted thinking" is defined as "a compressed statement to save us the trouble of thinking".

Related phrases

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