# potted

Pronunciation: say "POT-id" US /ˈpɑtɪd/, UK /ˈpɒtɪd/

## Adjective

1. Grown or planted in a flowerpot rather than directly in the ground.
   - Simple: Growing in a soil-filled container instead of in the open ground.
   - _The balcony was crowded with potted herbs and small citrus trees._
   - _He moved the potted fern indoors before the first frost._
3. Presented in a brief, summarized form that keeps only the main points.
   - Simple: Made short and simple, giving only the main facts.
   - _The textbook opens with a potted history of the revolution._
   - _She gave reporters a potted summary of the committee's findings._
4. Prepared in advance and kept ready, as though preserved by potting. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: Made ready ahead of time, so it can be used right away.
   - _He trotted out a potted answer that he had clearly used many times before._
   - _The brochure offered potted solutions to the most common travel problems._
5. Intoxicated from drinking too much alcohol. *(slang)*
   - Simple: Drunk after having too much alcohol.
   - _They were thoroughly potted by the time the band stopped playing._
   - _She arrived potted and could barely make it up the stairs._

## Verb

2. Simple past and past participle of pot. — simple past and past participle of pot
   - Simple: Simple past and past participle of pot. Use this form when the action already happened.
   - _The gardener potted dozens of seedlings before spring arrived._
   - _He potted the black ball to win the final frame._

## Origin

From pot + -ed, meaning "prepared in advance" by analogy with potted meat (canned meat). It was first used in print by L. Susan Stebbing in her 1939 book Thinking to Some Purpose, where "potted thinking" meant a compressed statement that saves us the trouble of thinking.

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