'Pregnant' definitions:
Definition of 'pregnant'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life [ant: nonpregnant]
adjective
Rich in significance or implication; "a meaning look" [syn: meaning(a), pregnant, significant]
adjective
Filled with or attended with; "words fraught with meaning"; "an incident fraught with danger"; "a silence pregnant with suspense" [syn: fraught(p), pregnant]
Definition of 'Pregnant'
From: GCIDE
- Pregnant \Preg"nant\, a. [L. praegnans, -antis; prae before + genere, gignere, to beget: cf. F. pr['e]gnant. See Gender,
- 2d Kin.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Heavy with important contents, significance, or issue; full of consequence or results; weighty; as, pregnant replies. " A pregnant argument." --Prynne. " A pregnant brevity." --E. Everett. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.; as, a pregnant youth. [Obs.] --Evelyn. [1913 Webster]
- Wherein the pregnant enemy does much. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Pregnant construction (Rhet.), one in which more is implied than is said; as, the beasts trembled forth from their dens, that is, came forth trembling with fright. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Pregnant'
From: GCIDE
- Pregnant \Preg"nant\, n. A pregnant woman. [R.] --Dunglison. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Pregnant'
From: GCIDE
- Pregnant \Preg"nant\, a. [F. prenant taking. Cf. Pregnable.] Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt. [Obs.] " Pregnant to good pity." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'pregnant'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abecedarian,
- aboriginal,
- abounding,
- abundant,
- allegorical,
- antenatal,
- anticipating,
- associational,
- autochthonous,
- basal,
- basic,
- beginning,
- big,
- big with child,
- big-laden,
- blooming,
- bountiful,
- breeding,
- budding,
- bursting,
- bursting out,
- carrying,
- carrying a fetus,
- central,
- charged,
- climacteric,
- conceptive,
- conceptual,
- connotational,
- connotative,
- consequential,
- copious,
- creative,
- critical,
- crucial,
- decisive,
- definable,
- denotational,
- denotative,
- elemental,
- elementary,
- eloquent,
- embryonic,
- emergent,
- esemplastic,
- exigent,
- expectant,
- expecting,
- expressive,
- extended,
- extensional,
- exuberant,
- facund,
- fecund,
- fertile,
- fetal,
- figurative,
- flourishing,
- formative,
- foundational,
- fraught,
- fructiferous,
- fruitful,
- full of meaning,
- full of point,
- full of substance,
- fundamental,
- generative,
- generous,
- genetic,
- germinal,
- gestating,
- gestatory,
- gone,
- gravid,
- great,
- heavy,
- heavy with child,
- ideational,
- ideative,
- imaginative,
- important,
- in embryo,
- in its infancy,
- in ovo,
- in the bud,
- inaugural,
- inceptive,
- inchoate,
- inchoative,
- incipient,
- incunabular,
- indicative,
- infant,
- infantile,
- ingenious,
- initial,
- initiative,
- initiatory,
- inspired,
- intelligible,
- intensional,
- interpretable,
- introductory,
- inventive,
- kairotic,
- knocked up,
- loaded,
- lush,
- luxuriant,
- meaning,
- meaningful,
- meaty,
- metaphorical,
- momentous,
- nascent,
- natal,
- notional,
- original,
- originative,
- parturient,
- pithy,
- pivotal,
- plenteous,
- plentiful,
- pointed,
- postnatal,
- preggers,
- prenatal,
- primal,
- primary,
- prime,
- primeval,
- primitive,
- primogenial,
- primordial,
- pristine,
- procreative,
- productive,
- proliferous,
- prolific,
- protogenic,
- radical,
- readable,
- referential,
- replete,
- rich,
- rudimental,
- rudimentary,
- seminal,
- sententious,
- shaping,
- significant,
- significative,
- substantial,
- suggestive,
- superabundant,
- superfetate,
- superimpregnated,
- swarming,
- symbolic,
- teeming,
- thriving,
- transferred,
- uberous,
- up the spout,
- ur,
- visioned,
- weighty,
- with child