Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

potted

/pˈɑtɪd/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.94 in modern English

Syllables: pot-ted
IPA: /pˈɑtɪd/

9

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

simple past and past participle of pot

adj

Grown or planted in a plant pot.

adj

Prepared in advance, as though preserved by potting.

Informal

adj

Slang

adj

Expressed in a relatively short, brief form.

Example Sentences

"potted meat"
"Granny waters her potted plants on the windowsill every day."
"The company released a potted statement."
"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."
"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."

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".

Word Breakdown

Suffix: pot

Usage

Phrases

potted plant potted shrimp

Synonyms

prepared Adrian Quist adrip aled up all mops and brooms arseholed a sheet in the wind a sheet in the wind's eye bedrunken befuddled beliquored besotted

Rhymes With

spotted plotted allotted slotted carotid knotted rotted trotted swatted jotted dotted besotted

Questions

How do you pronounce potted?: The recorded pronunciation is /pˈɑtɪd/.
What does potted mean?: simple past and past participle of pot
Where does potted come 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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