potted

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. verb plant in a pot
  2. adjective of plants; planted or grown in a pot
  3. adjective preserved in a pot or can or jar

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".

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Synonyms

pot

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