pregnant
Meanings
Plural: pregnants
Adjective
- carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life
Adjective Satellite
- rich in significance or implication
- filled with or attended with
- "a silence pregnant with suspense"
Adj
- Carrying developing offspring within the body.
- Carrying developing offspring within the body.
- Of a couple: expecting a baby together.
- Meaningful, having numerous possibilities or implications; full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.
- Fecund, fertile, prolific (usually of soil, ground, etc.).
- Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt.
- Ready-witted; clever; ingenious.
- Compelling; clear, evident.
Noun
- A pregnant person.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English preignant, from Old French preignant, pregnant, also prenant (compare archaic Modern French prégnant), and their source, Latin praegnāns (“pregnant”), probably from prae- (“pre-”) + *gnāscī, an archaic form of nāscī (“to be born”). Displaced Old English bearnēacen (literally "child-enlarged").
Synonyms
big, carrying, child-great, delicate, eating for two, enceinte, expectant, expecting, expecting a baby, fertilized, fraught, full, gestating, gone, gravid, great, have a bun in the oven, having a bun in the oven, heavy, hormonal, in a family way, in an interesting condition, in the club, in the family way, in the pudding club, knocked up, meaning, meaningful, preg, preggers, preggie, preggo, pregnant, pregs, pupped, quick, significant, up the duff, up the kyte, up the spout, up the stick, up the stump, with child
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 11
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