pregnant
/'pregnənt/
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Carrying developing offspring within the body: The state of having a baby or young animal developing inside the uterus.
- Rich in significance or implication; full of meaning: Containing or suggesting important, unstated ideas or consequences.
Usage Examples
- Carrying offspring:
- She is three months pregnant.
- The pregnant cat found a safe place to give birth.
- Full of meaning or significance:
- There was a pregnant pause before he answered the difficult question.
- The artist's work is pregnant with symbolism.
Advanced Usage
- "pregnant with": This phrase is commonly used in the figurative sense to mean 'full of' or 'charged with'.
- The treaty was pregnant with consequences for future generations.
- His silence was pregnant with unspoken accusations.
Variants and Related Words
- Pregnancy (noun): The condition or period of being pregnant.
- She experienced good health throughout her pregnancy.
- Impregnate (verb): To make pregnant; or to saturate or fill thoroughly with a substance.
- The scientist sought to impregnate the specimen with a dye.
Synonyms
- Expecting (adj., informal): Carrying a child.
- Gravid (adj., formal/biological): Carrying eggs or young; pregnant.
- Meaningful (adj.): Having a serious, important, or useful quality or purpose.
- Significant (adj.): Sufficiently great or important to be worthy of attention.
Related Phrases
- Pregnant pause: A temporary silence that is full of meaning or emotional tension.
- After his shocking confession, a pregnant pause filled the courtroom.
Related Idioms
- In a family way (idiom, old-fashioned/euphemistic): Pregnant.
- It was soon announced that the duchess was in a family way.
Adjective
- filled with or attended with
- words fraught with meaning
- an incident fraught with danger
- a silence pregnant with suspense
- rich in significance or implication
- a meaning look
- carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life