potted

Examples

• All

• In his presentation, he shared a potted summary of the research findings.

• But, as this potted history suggests, orthodoxies come and go.

  Academic text (2004)

• And if I may, I'd just like to briefly give you a potted history of our school, of our the journey our school's made.

• The above is a potted version of Julian Barbour's postulate of a time-independent universe.

  Blog text (10)

• Beckett's commentary on the abdication of Nicholas, for example, amounts to little more than a potted history of the events leading up to the Russian Revolution; and his final essay on the April 9, 1918, German offensive merely summarizes the war's final months with only passing reference to the supposed primary subject.

  Blog text (7)

• The professor provided a potted overview of the main events leading up to the war.

• The brochure contained a potted account of the museum's history for new visitors.

Synonyms

A

abridged

vspotted

1 4.2

Shortened text that keeps the main ideas and events

is an informal, general summary rather than a formal text revision

Antonyms

U

unabridged

4 6.0

Contains the original text with nothing left out

How Concise

terse

12 7.0

potted

• UK

1 8.1

detailed

353 3.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology