potted

Meaning

Verb

simple past and past participle of pot

Adj

1. (not-comparable) Grown or planted in a plant pot.
2. (informal, not-comparable) Prepared in advance, as though preserved by potting.
3. (not-comparable, slang) Drunk.
4. (not-comparable) Expressed in a relatively short, brief form.

pot

• Noun
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Synonyms

drunk

abridged

preserved

condensed

pickled

shortened

summarized

abbreviated

truncated

canned

clipped

Translations

invasata

conservato

βαλμένος εντός δοχείου

κουτσουρεμένος

παστωμένος

conservato in vaso

stereotiep

verkort

em pasta

conservado em vaso

çömlekte pişmiş

küfelik olmuş

وضع في القِدر، طبخ في القدر

saksıya konmuş

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".