What is another word for potted?

Pronunciation: [pˈɒtɪd] (IPA)

Potted is a word that is commonly used to describe plants grown in a container. However, there are various synonyms that can be used instead of the word potted. Some of the options include container-grown, pot-bound, planted in a planter, grown in a pot, and planted in a container. Other synonyms may include cultivated in a vessel, nurtured in a receptacle, or reared in a pot. Using alternative words helps to diversify your vocabulary and make your writing more interesting. So next time you're writing about plants, try using one of these synonyms for potted!

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What are the opposite words for potted?

The antonyms for the word "potted" include words like unplanted, rootless, unrooted, uprooted, barren, bare, infertile, desolate, and uncultivated. Potted refers to plants that have been placed in containers, so the opposite terms describe a lack of container-grown plants. Unplanted refers to areas that have not been used for gardening, while the other terms describe the state of plants that have been removed from their containers or never grown in containers at all. If you're looking for words that specifically refer to plants that have been removed from pots, uprooted and unrooted are your best options.

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Usage examples for Potted

Beyond them was high ground, from which German machine-gun and rifle fire swept them, and not far away German snipers potted our men, and especially our officers, as they climbed in and out of shell-craters.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
Without warning or justification, without even giving him a chance, she had sneaked up and potted him like a rabbit; and now, as men came running to witness his shame, she gloried in her badness.
"Shadow Mountain"
Dane Coolidge
Her books and music might stand as they were, her potted ferns and her scattered small possessions-the sewing-basket that she always handled with a boy's awkwardness, and the camera she used so well-should keep their places.
"Sisters"
Kathleen Norris

Famous quotes with Potted

  • For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
    Edward Abbey
  • I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.
    Dan Quayle
  • A young lady, being on a visit at a noble friend's mansion, was betrayed by complaisance into an admission that she was very fond of potted sprats, though she abhorred the sight, taste, and smell of them. This little falsehood brought her into a false position as respects her noble friend, who, to oblige her young guest, provided for her nothing but potted sprats.cathartics, diaphoretics, lancets, leeches, blisters, and glysterssoon introduced debility, epilepsy, and catalepsy; which, to the astonishment of no one but the doctors, introduced death, who ended the false position.
    Alexander Bryan Johnson
  • Inside there was a wall three feet away. And between the wall and the door, in this unbelievably tiny space, a girl in a lemon-coloured shirt sat at a desk, with word processor, potted plant, mug of pencils, furry gonk, and wadges of orange paper. It was incredible that anyone or anything could function in such a space. It was like suddenly discovering a family of otters in one of your shoes.
    Hugh Laurie
  • Ah, Caroline Brine - with your aversion to bohemians and homosexuals, students and foreigners, with your lacerated womb and scullery rat's brain, with your phosphorescent dildos and potted African violets, haunted by the ghost of your aborted baby and contaminated by envy, you freckled, you artificially tanned, you stupefyingly bland and vicious mediocrity - even after all these years, I still detest you.
    Antonella Gambotto-Burke

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