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potted

potted is the simple past and past participle of pot.

Adjective

potted (not comparable)

  1. Grown or planted in a plant pot.
    • Granny waters her potted plants on the windowsill every day.
  2. (informal) Prepared in advance, as though preserved by potting.
    • The company released a potted statement.
    Synonyms:
    prepared
  3. (slang) Drunk.
  4. Expressed in a relatively short, brief form.
    • a potted history
    • what she shared aloud with him after the movie or the episode was over was often just a potted version of a much more probing and speculative conversation that had already happened in her head.2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 210

Meaning of pot

Verb

pot (third-person singular simple present pots, present participle potting, simple past and past participle potted)

  1. To put (something) into a pot.
    • to pot a plant
  2. To preserve by bottling or canning.
    • potted meat
  3. To package a circuit by encasing it in resin.
  4. (transitive) To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
  5. (intransitive) To be capable of being potted.
    • The black ball doesn't pot; the red is in the way.
  6. (slang, transitive) To shoot with a firearm.
    • When hunted, it [the jaguar] takes refuge in trees, and this habit is well known to hunters, who pursue it with dogs and pot it when treed.1897, Encyclopaedia of Sport

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Synonyms of potted

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Origin of potted

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".

Words formed from potted

Phrases with potted

Words that rhyme with potted

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Questions about potted

What does potted mean?
Potted means grown or planted in a plant pot.
What is potted the simple past and past participle of?
Potted is the simple past and past participle of pot.
What part of speech is potted?
Potted is an adjective.

Words near potted in the dictionary

  1. Pottawattomi
  2. Pottebaum
  3. Pottebaums
  4. pottecaries
  5. pottecary
  6. potted
  7. potted on
  8. potted out
  9. potted plant
  10. potted plants
  11. potted shrimp

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