Pregnant
['pregnənt] or ['prɛɡnənt]
Definition
(adj.) carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life .
Checker: Newman--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth.
(a.) Heavy with important contents, significance, or issue; full of consequence or results; weighty; as, pregnant replies.
(a.) Full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.; as, a pregnant youth.
(n.) A pregnant woman.
(a.) Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt.
Typed by Cedric
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Enceinte, big, with child, in the family way.[2]. Fraught, replete, full, teeming.
Typed by Dominic
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Procreant, generative, prolific, teeming, significant, fraught, fruitful,replete, with_child, enceinte
ANT:Sterile, unproductive, barren, void, meaningless
Typist: Silvia
Definition
adj. being with child or young: fruitful: abounding with results: full of meaning: implying more than is actually expressed: ready-witted: clever: ingenious: full of promise: free: evident: clear.—n. Preg′nancy state of being pregnant: fertility: unusual capacity.—adv. Preg′nantly.
Editor: Meredith
Examples
- Where could we turn, and not find a desolation pregnant with the dire lesson of example? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- In four months more she was pregnant. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- What its future is to be no man may say, but its destiny is not yet fulfilled, and it is pregnant with potential possibilities. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Pregnant with possibilities were many of the observations that had been recorded. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I am alone in the world-- but that expression as yet was less pregnant with misery, than that Adrian and Clara are dead. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- This age is pregnant with the socialism of to-morrow. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He smiled, a very grim smile pregnant with hidden meaning. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The angel bade the pregnant Hagar return to her mistress Sarai, even though Sarai had dealt harshly with her. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Julia was raving about Sir Henry Mildmay, by whom she professed to be pregnant. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- We employ the word experience in the same pregnant sense. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Rowing in moderation is very good for the pregnant lady. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Her plea was, that a soldier had seduced her, she was pregnant by him, and he loved her no longer. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- This reversal is pregnant with a new outlook for statecraft. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Editor: Meredith