canned

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Canada, US, UK/kænd/[keənd] ~ [kɛənd]British, Northern England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales/kand/Australia/kæːnd/

adjective

Preserved in cans.

“canned tomatoes”

Opposite
CommonScrabble 9

Meanings

adjectivecanned (not comparable)
  1. not comparablePreserved in cans.

    canned tomatoes

    1 more example

    If you don't have fresh cardoon I'll take canned.

    Synonyms: tinned

  2. broadlynot comparablePreviously prepared; not fresh or new; standardized, mass-produced, or lacking originality or customization.

    canned laughter

    5 more examples

    The form letter included a canned answer stating that what I asked was against policy.

    The interpreter gave us a canned history of the site.

    And the punch-lines seem to disappear like clouds across the sky / And the laughter could be real or could be canned

    1996, Paul Heaton, Dave Rotheray, “Liar's Bar”, in Blue Is the Colour, performed by The Beautiful South

    Unfortunately, some of the canned code, which Visual C++ gives to you when creating an application, is not CE aware and gives you compile errors.

    1998, Dr. Dobb's Journal: Software Tools for the Professional Programmer

    The vested owners of all those sun-drenched tract houses may stick around for a while and fight over the region, perhaps thinking that they are reenacting the great historical dramas of the nineteenth century—such is the long-term effect of canned entertainment on the collective imagi­nation.

    2005, James Howard Kunstler, chapter 7, in The Long Emergency, page 279

    Synonyms: boilerplate, stock

  3. not comparableslangDrunk.

    Synonyms: drunk

  4. not comparableTerminated, fired from a job.
  5. not comparableCancelled or thrown away, said of a project or news article.

    The raider story was canned by the censor on instructions from the naval authorities.

    1997, Frederick T. Smith, Backroom Briefings: John Curtin's War
verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of can

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivePreserved in cans.

Similar

adjectivePreviously prepared; not fresh or new; standardized, mass-produced, or lacking originality or customization.

adjectiveDrunk.

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antonym(s) of “preserved in cans”

Opposite

More synonyms by meaning

adjectiverecorded for broadcast

adjectivesealed in a can or jar

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

Bulgarian консерви́ран, пия́н
  • консерви́ран (konservíran)preserved in cans
  • пия́н (piján)drunk
Catalan enllaunat
  • enllaunatpreserved in cans
Chinese Mandarin 罐頭的 /罐头的, 罐裝的 /罐装的
  • 罐頭的 /罐头的 (guàntóu de)preserved in cans
  • 罐裝的 /罐装的 (guànzhuāng de)preserved in cans
Finnish purkitettu, säilyke-
  • purkitettupreserved in cans
  • säilyke-preserved in cans
  • tölkki-preserved in cans
  • humalassadrunk
  • kännissädrunk
French en conserve, en boîte
  • en conservepreserved in cans
  • en boîtepreserved in cans
German konserviert, Dosen-
  • konserviertpreserved in cans
  • Dosen-preserved in cans
Irish stáin
  • stáinpreserved in cans
Italian in scatola
  • in scatolapreserved in cans
Japanese 缶詰の, 缶の
  • 缶詰の (kanzume no)preserved in cans
  • 缶の (kan no)preserved in cans
Portuguese enlatado, enlatado
  • enlatadopreserved in cans
  • enlatadopreviously prepared
  • bêbadodrunk
Punjabi ਡੱਬਾਬੰਦ
  • ਡੱਬਾਬੰਦ (ḍabbāband)preserved in cans
Russian консерви́рованный, в ба́нке
  • консерви́рованный (konservírovannyj)preserved in cans
  • в ба́нке (v bánke)preserved in cans
  • загото́вленный (zagotóvlennyj)previously prepared
  • в за́писи (v zápisi)previously prepared
  • запи́санный (zapísannyj)previously prepared
  • пья́ный (pʹjányj)drunk
  • бухо́й (buxój)drunk
Spanish enlatado
  • enlatadopreserved in cans
Tagalog delata
  • delatapreserved in cans
Turkish konserve
  • konservepreserved in cans
Vietnamese đóng hộp, đóng lon
  • đóng hộppreserved in cans
  • đóng lonpreserved in cans

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Cite this entry
APA

canned. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/canned

MLA

“canned.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/canned. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “canned,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/canned.

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