pregnant
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Adjective (3)
- carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new lifeOpposite nonpregnantSimilar big, enceinte
- rich in significance or implication“a meaning look”“a significant silence”Synonyms: meaningsignificantOpposite meaninglessSimilar meaningful
- filled with or attended with“words fraught with meaning”“an incident fraught with danger”“a silence pregnant with suspense”Synonyms: fraughtOpposite emptySimilar full
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Translations
Adjective carrying developing offspring within the body
- Spanish
- embarazada
- French
- enceinte
- German
- schwanger
- Italian
- incinta
- Portuguese
- grávida
- Turkish
- gebe
- Russian
- бере́менный berémennyj
- Arabic
- حَامِل ḥāmil
- Chinese
- 怀孕 huáiyùn
- Japanese
- 妊娠している ninshin shite iru
29 more languages
- Dutch
- zwanger
- Polish
- ciężarny
- Swedish
- gravid
- Greek
- έγκυος égkyos
- Korean
- 임신하다 imsinhada
- Indonesian
- hamil
- Vietnamese
- có thai
- Hungarian
- terhes
- Portuguese (PT)
- prenhe
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 懷孕 huáiyùn
- Albanian
- shtatzënë
- Catalan
- prenyat
- Czech
- těhotný
- Danish
- gravid
- Esperanto
- graveda
- Estonian
- rase
- Georgian
- ორსული orsuli
- Hebrew
- הָרָה haré
- Icelandic
- barnshafandi
- Kurdish
- avis
- Latvian
- grūsns
- Norwegian
- gravid
- Romanian
- gravidă
- Scottish Gaelic
- leatromach
- Serbo-Croatian
- trudan
- Slovak
- tehotný
- Swahili
- mjamzito
- Welsh
- beichiog
- Yiddish
- מעוברת muberes
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. praegnans, -antis; prae before + genere, gignere, to beget: cf. F. prégnant. See Gender, 2d Kin.
1. Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth.
2. Heavy with important contents, significance, or issue; full of consequence or results; weighty; as, pregnant replies. “ A pregnant argument.” Prynne. “ A pregnant brevity.” Edward Everett
3. Full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.; as, a pregnant youth. obsolete John Evelyn
Wherein the pregnant enemy does much.— William Shakespeare
Pregnant construction Rhetoric, one in which more is implied than is said; as, the beasts trembled forth from their dens, that is, came forth trembling with fright.
A pregnant woman. rare Dunglison, Robley
Origin: F. prenant taking. Cf. Pregnable.
Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt. obsolete “ Pregnant to good pity.” William Shakespeare
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54