potted

adjective

Definition of potted

1 :preserved in a pot, jar, or can

potted meat

2 :planted or grown in a pot

3 :briefly and superficially summarized

a dull, pedestrian potted history
—The Times Literary Supplement (London)

4 slang :drunk 1a

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Examples of potted in a Sentence

The book gives a potted history of the Industrial Revolution in the first chapter.
work was so awful that I'm just going to go out and get potted tonight

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An arriving officer talked to one of the homeowners in the duplex who watched their neighbor urinate on a stove and then damage a patio table and potted plants.

— john benson, cleveland.com, "Drunk man arrested for fighting with neighbors: North Royalton Police Blotter," 30 July 2017
Theft, Thornapple Drive: A resident reported July 9 a wind-catcher and two potted plants were missing from her front yard.

— andy attina / cleveland.com, cleveland.com, "Woman threatens to make files disappear from doctor's office: Mayfield Village Police Blotter," 12 July 2017
Most local nurseries carry a great section of potted, ready-to-plant specimens.

— ciscoe morris, The Seattle Times, "How a dab of canned cat food protects your dazzling dahlias," 5 July 2017
Place crushed rock or gravel on top of the soil in the potted plants to keep the soil from floating away into the water feature.

— the pecks, OregonLive.com, "Adding soothing water feature to a garden can be simple, following these steps: The Pecks," 18 June 2017
But as development took over, trees were cut and blossoms were poached and used for commercial sale such as potted plants at stores and markets.

— johnny diaz, Sun-Sentinel.com, "20,000 orchids to bloom in Miami Beach," 16 June 2017
Boxes the color of a desert sunset are staggered between potted succulents at Santa Ana’s Bud and Bloom dispensary.

— brooke edwards staggs, The Cannifornian, "A flower’s tale: How legal weed goes from seed to sale," 11 June 2017
HomePod, available starting in December 2017, is a 7-inch cylinder that's nearly the size of a small potted plant.

— leena rao, Fortune, "Meet Apple’s Echo Rival, Homepod," 5 June 2017
The miniature houses with front stoops guarded by potted plants and tanuki (raccoon dog) figurines had a stillness about them.

— adam h. graham, Condé Nast Traveler, "The Ise-Shima Peninsula Is a Portal Into Old Japan," 2 June 2017

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First Known Use of potted

circa 1684

potted Synonyms

Synonyms

besotted, blasted [slang], blind, blitzed [slang], blotto [slang], bombed, boozy, canned [slang], cockeyed, crocked, drunken, fried, gassed, hammered [slang], high, impaired, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, juiced [slang], lit, lit up, loaded [slang], looped, oiled [slang], pickled, pie-eyed, plastered, drunk [slang], ripped [slang], sloshed [slang], smashed [slang], sottish, soused, sozzled, squiffed (or squiffy), stewed, stiff, stinking [slang], stoned, tanked [slang], tiddly [chiefly British], tight, tipsy, wasted [slang], wet, wiped out [slang]

Antonyms

sober, straight

Related Words

maudlin; beery; befuddled, bleary-eyed, crapulous, dopey (also dopy), rocky, strung out, stupefied; debauched, dissipated, dissolute; alcoholic, bibulous, dipsomaniacal

Near Antonyms

abstemious, abstinent, dry, temperate, teetotal; clearheaded, cool, level, steady

POTTED Defined for English Language Learners

potted

adjective

Definition of potted for English Language Learners

: growing in a pot rather than in the ground
: cooked and then preserved in a pot, jar, or can
: giving only the most important information about something : brief and simplified

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