potted en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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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".
Meanings
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(not-comparable, of a plant) Grown or planted in a plant pot.
Granny waters her potted plants on the windowsill every day.
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(informal, not-comparable) Prepared in advance, as though preserved by potting.
The company released a potted statement.
- (not-comparable, slang) Drunk.
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(not-comparable, of a biographical or historical account) 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:In it she gives a potted history of leading figures from Beatrice Webb to Christine Lagarde and—her favourite—Janet Yellen, the US Treasury secretary, whom she recently met in Washington.
2023 October 7, Jim Pickard, “It’s not government that creates jobs”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
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Synonyms
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