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発音

• 韻: -ɒtɪd

動詞

potted

1. simple past and past participle of pot

   potted meat

形容詞

potted (not comparable)

1. (of a plant) Grown or planted in a plant pot.

   Granny waters her potted plants on the windowsill every day.

2. (informal) Prepared in advance, as though preserved by potting.

   Synonym: prepared

   The company released a potted statement.

3. (slang) Drunk.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:drunk

4. (of a biographical or historical account) Expressed in a relatively short, brief form.

   a potted history

   • 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 210:

     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.

   • 2023 October 7, Jim Pickard, “It’s not government that creates jobs”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:

     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.

派生語

Further reading

• “potted”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.