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preg·nant 1

 (prĕg′nənt)
adj.
1. Carrying developing offspring within the body.
2.
a. Weighty or significant; full of meaning: a conversation occasionally punctuated by pregnant pauses.
b. Of great or potentially great import, implication, or moment: "It was a politically pregnant time in Poland" (New York).
3. Filled or fraught; replete: "This was, from the Party's point of view, both deplorable in itself and pregnant with danger for the future" (Robert Conquest).
4. Having a profusion of ideas; creative or inventive.
5. Producing results; fruitful: a pregnant decision.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin praegnāns, praegnant-, variant of praegnās; see genə- in Indo-European roots.]

preg′nant·ly adv.

preg·nant 2

 (prĕg′nənt)
adj. Archaic
Convincing; cogent. Used of an argument or a proof.

[Middle English, probably from Old French preignant, present participle of prembre, to press, from Latin premere; see per- in Indo-European roots.]
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pregnant

(ˈprɛɡnənt)
adj
1. (Gynaecology & Obstetrics) carrying a fetus or fetuses within the womb
2. full of meaning or significance
3. inventive or imaginative
4. prolific or fruitful
[C16: from Latin praegnāns with child, from prae before + (g)nascī to be born]
ˈpregnantly adv
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preg•nant1

(ˈprɛg nənt)

adj.
1. having a child or other offspring developing in the body; with child or young, as a woman or female mammal.
2. fraught, filled, or abounding (usu. fol. by with): a silence pregnant with suspense.
3. fertile; rich (often fol. by in): a mind pregnant in ideas.
4. full of meaning; highly significant: a pregnant utterance.
5. of great importance or potential; momentous: a pregnant epoch in history.
6. teeming with ideas or imagination.
[1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin praegnant-, s. of praegnāns, variant of praegnās=prae- pre- + *gnāt- (akin to (g)nātus born, gignere to bring into being) + -s nominative singular ending]

preg•nant2

(ˈprɛg nənt)

adj.
Archaic. convincing; cogent.
[1350–1400; Middle English preignant < Old French, present participle of preindre, earlier priembre to press1]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.pregnant - carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life
nonpregnant - not pregnant
2.pregnant - rich in significance or implication; "a meaning look"
meaningful - having a meaning or purpose; "a meaningful explanation"; "a meaningful discussion"; "a meaningful pause"
3.pregnant - filled with or attended with; "words fraught with meaning"; "an incident fraught with danger"; "a silence pregnant with suspense"
full - containing as much or as many as is possible or normal; "a full glass"; "a sky full of stars"; "a full life"; "the auditorium was full to overflowing"
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pregnant

adjective
1. expectant, expecting (informal), with child, in the club (Brit. slang), in the family way (informal), gravid, preggers (Brit. informal), enceinte, in the pudding club (slang), big or heavy with child Tina was pregnant with their first child.
2. meaningful, pointed, charged, significant, telling, loaded, expressive, eloquent, weighty, suggestive There was a long, pregnant silence.
3. (with with) full of, rich in, fraught with, teeming with, replete with, abounding in, abundant in, fecund with The songs are pregnant with irony and insight.
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pregnant

adjective
1. Carrying a developing fetus within the uterus:
Slang: gone.
Archaic: great.
2. Conveying hidden or unexpressed meaning:
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Translations
حاملحامِل، حُبْلىحُبْلَى
těhotnátěhotný
gravid
rasetiine
raskaana
trudna
terhes
barnshafandiófrískurólétturóléttur, barnshafandiþungaður
妊娠した
임신하고 있는
nėštumas
grūtniecības stāvoklī
tehotná
noseča
gravid
ตั้งครรภ์
có thai

pregnant

[ˈpregnənt] ADJ
1. (lit)
1.1. [woman] → embarazada
to be pregnantestar embarazada
to be six months pregnantestar embarazada de seis meses
to become or get pregnant (by sb)quedarse embarazada (de algn)
Tina was pregnant with their first sonTina estaba embarazada de su primer hijo
see also heavily 1
1.2. [animal] → preñado
2. (fig) → elocuente, significativo
a pregnant pauseuna pausa elocuente or significativa
pregnant with sthcargado or preñado de algo
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

pregnant

[ˈprɛgnənt] adj
[woman] → enceinte adj f; [animal] → pleine adj f, gravide
She's six months pregnant → Elle est enceinte de six mois.
to be pregnant with [+ first child, son, daughter] → être enceinte de
when I was pregnant with Stephen → quand j'étais enceinte de Stephen
Maree was pregnant with their first daughter → Maree était enceinte de leur première fille.
to get pregnant → tomber enceinte
[silence, pause] → lourd(e) de sens
pregnant with sth [threat, consequences] → lourd de qch
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

pregnant

adj
womanschwanger; animalträchtig, tragend; 3 months pregnantim vierten Monat schwanger; she is pregnant with her first childsie ist zum ersten Mal schwanger; Gill was pregnant by her new boyfriendGill war von ihrem neuen Freund schwanger; to become or get pregnant (woman)schwanger werden
(fig) remark, silence, pausebedeutungsvoll or -schwer or -geladen; pregnant with meaningbedeutungsvoll or -geladen or -schwanger (iro); pregnant with consequencesfolgenschwer
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

pregnant

[ˈprɛgnənt] adj (woman) → incinta; (animal) → gravida (liter) (remark, pause) → significativo/a
3 months pregnant → incinta di 3 mesi
pregnant with meaning (liter) → pregno/a di significato
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

pregnant

(ˈpregnənt) adjective
carrying unborn young in the womb.
ˈpregnancy (plural ˈpregnancies) noun
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pregnant

حُبْلَى těhotná gravid schwanger έγκυος embarazada raskaana enceinte trudna incinta 妊娠した 임신하고 있는 zwanger gravid w ciąży grávida беременная gravid ตั้งครรภ์ gebe có thai 怀孕的
Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009

preg·nant

a. embarazada, encinta, en estado de gestación; grávida.
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pregnant

adj embarazada, encinta (fam); You are three months pregnant.. Ud. tiene tres meses de embarazo; to get o become — embarazarse, quedarse embarazada
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References in classic literature ?
1-9) For some say, at Dracanum; and some, on windy Icarus; and some, in Naxos, O Heaven-born, Insewn (2); and others by the deep-eddying river Alpheus that pregnant Semele bare you to Zeus the thunder-lover.
The proceeding upon somewhat conceived in writing, doth for the most part facilitate dispatch: for though it should be wholly rejected, yet that negative is more pregnant of direction, than an indefinite; as ashes are more generative than dust.
"To have fidelity, and for the sake of fidelity to risk honour and blood, even in evil and dangerous courses"--teaching itself so, another people mastered itself, and thus mastering itself, became pregnant and heavy with great hopes.
He was like a pregnant woman, only that the thing inside him was not a baby but a youth.
Then quite a group of boys and girls -- playmates of Tom's and Joe's -- came by, and stood looking over the paling fence and talking in reverent tones of how Tom did so-and-so the last time they saw him, and how Joe said this and that small trifle (pregnant with awful prophecy, as they could easily see now!) -- and each speaker pointed out the exact spot where the lost lads stood at the time, and then added something like "and I was a-standing just so -- just as I am now, and as if you was him -- I was as close as that -- and he smiled, just this way -- and then something seemed to go all over me, like -- awful, you know -- and I never thought what it meant, of course, but I can see now!"
The restriction in question amounts to what lawyers call a NEGATIVE PREGNANT that is, a NEGATION of one thing, and an AFFIRMANCE of another; a negation of the authority of the States to impose taxes on imports and exports, and an affirmance of their authority to impose them on all other articles.
She had been married during the previous winter, and being pregnant did not go to any large gatherings, but only to small receptions.
One way and another, it has begotten events so remarkable in themselves, and so continuously momentous in their sequential issues, that whaling may well be regarded as that Egyptian mother, who bore offspring themselves pregnant from her womb.
By this pregnant speech the farrier had re-established his self-complacency, and waited with confidence to hear himself named as one of the superlatively sensible men.
When the matron HOUYHNHNMS have produced one of each sex, they no longer accompany with their consorts, except they lose one of their issue by some casualty, which very seldom happens; but in such a case they meet again; or when the like accident befalls a person whose wife is past bearing, some other couple bestow on him one of their own colts, and then go together again until the mother is pregnant. This caution is necessary, to prevent the country from being overburdened with numbers.
Presently there was a stillness, pregnant with meaning.
Her smile, too, was of so winning and gentle a nature, as to announce a disposition pregnant with all the affections.

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