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Pregnant

Pregnant Meaning & Definition
Pregnant Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Pregnant?

[adj] carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life
[adj] filled with or attended with; "words fraught with meaning"; "an incident fraught with danger"; "a silence pregnant with suspense"
[adj] rich in significance or implication; "a meaning look"; "pregnant with meaning"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Pregnant: big(p) | enceinte | expectant | fraught(p) | full | gravid | great(p) | heavy(p) | in trouble(a) | large(p) | meaning(a) | meaningful | significant | with child(p)

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Pregnant In Webster's Dictionary

\Preg"nant\, a. [L. praegnans, -antis; prae before + genere, gignere, to beget: cf. F. pr['e]gnant. 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.''
\Preg"nant\, n. A pregnant woman. [R.] --Dunglison.
\Preg"nant\, a. [F. prenant taking. Cf. {Pregnable}.] Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt. [Obs.] `` Pregnant to good pity.'' --Shak.

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