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potted.

Grown or planted in a plant pot.

6 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj
  1. Grown or planted in a plant pot.

    not-comparable
    Granny waters her potted plants on the windowsill every day.
  2. Prepared in advance, as though preserved by potting.

    informal · not-comparable
    The company released a potted statement.
  3. Drunk.

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

    not-comparable
    a potted history
Where this word comes from

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".

verb
  1. simple past and past participle of pot

    form-of · participle · past
    potted meat
Where this word comes from

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".

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