Synonyms of pots

pots 1 of 2

noun

plural of pot

1

as in pools

the total of the bets at stake at one time

everyone got a bit nervous when the pot grew to more than a hundred dollars

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pools
• funds
• stakes
• jacks
• bets
• jackpots
• kitties
• wagers

2

as in loads

a considerable amount

made a pot of money in the real estate market

Synonyms & Similar Words

• loads
• tons
• piles
• dozens
• chunks
• quantities
• hundreds
• rafts
• stacks
• bunches
• lots
• deals
• bundles
• buckets
• plenties
• wealths
• slews
• masses
• abundances
• bushels
• barrels
• yards
• mountains
• heaps
• truckloads
• fistfuls
• volumes
• all kinds (of)
• myriads
• quite a bit
• gobs
• shiploads
• basketfuls
• sheaves
• wads
• packs
• carloads
• pecks
• boatloads
• stores
• potfuls
• platefuls
• scads
• oodles
• reams
• good deals
• lashings
• sights
• profusions
• multiplicities
• messes
• much
• plenitudes
• floods
• scores
• thousands
• passels
• spates
• plentitudes
• surpluses
• seas
• rashes
• millions
• plagues
• excesses
• multitudes
• epidemics
• swarms
• bonanzas
• hordes
• armies
• overages
• hosts
• superfluities
• overflows
• flocks
• deluges
• crowds
• redundancies
• overmuch
• embarrassments
• trillions
• throngs
• surfeits
• legions
• mobs
• zillions
• herds
• presses
• overabundances
• oversupplies
• plethoras
• crushes
• superabundances
• overkills
• bevies
• droves
• gazillions
• jillions
• crams
• kazillions

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• shadows
• shades
• spots
• ounces
• bits
• molecules
• handfuls
• fragments
• grains
• peanuts
• strains
• granules
• particles
• tastes
• atoms
• mites
• touches
• dots
• specks
• streaks
• rays
• mouthfuls
• aces
• scraps
• traces
• licks
• drams
• pinches
• sprinkles
• scruples
• dabs
• hints
• suspicions
• flecks
• crumbs
• nips
• pieces
• motes
• shreds
• pittances
• glimmers
• sections
• portions
• driblets
• sprinklings
• drops
• little
• shots
• dashes
• smidgens
• nubbins
• morsels
• flyspecks
• whits
• scintillas
• iotas
• jots
• modicums
• tittles
• shortages
• absences
• smatterings
• lacks
• smatters
• deficiencies
• wants
• deficits
• famines
• scarcities
• inadequacies
• insufficiencies
• dearths
• poverties
• undersupplies
• paucities

3

as in bellies

an enlarged or bulging abdomen

vowed that he would never get a pot, that telltale sign of middle age

Synonyms & Similar Words

• bellies
• stomachs
• corporations
• bay windows
• potbellies
• paunches
• obesities
• beer bellies
• guts
• fat
• tummies
• breadbaskets
• overweights
• corpulences

pots

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of pot

as in seeds

Related Words

• seeds
• plants
• drills
• transplants
• replants
• puts in
• sows
• beds
• broadcasts
• reseeds
• scatters
• overseeds

Dissimilar Words

• gathers
• reaps
• harvests

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of pots

Noun

An arborist tends to it every two weeks and the spa replaces 300 to 400 pots every three months. — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026

Making sure pots have enough drainage holes will keep the soil from getting soggy. — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 19 July 2026

Grow them in pots, planters, or straight in your garden and petunias will reward you with big, bold flowers that just don’t quit. — Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 19 July 2026

The landscaping is designed to blend into the urban landscape, combining pots of various shapes and sizes that house climbing plants, evergreens, Japanese maples, and tropical species. — Francesca Longoni, Architectural Digest, 18 July 2026

Waiters swished past with little pots of lemon sorbet and glasses of Sprankel, a sparkling wine from Babylonstoren, Roos and Bekker’s farm and hotel in South Africa’s Franschhoek wine valley. — Mary Holland, Travel + Leisure, 18 July 2026

The concrete pots and planters, many of which were made by Eric Solderholz, a Swedish-American concrete artisan, before 1930, come in all shapes and sizes, ranging from tree-stump-inspired to abstract cylinders. — Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 July 2026

Just prepare a few new containers filled with an all-purpose potting mix, and then direct the strawberry runners into the fresh pots. — Samantha Johnson, Martha Stewart, 12 July 2026

And a dozen roaches were under a box near a kitchen shelf with clean pots and pans. — David J. Neal july 10, Miami Herald, 10 July 2026