pregnant

[Preg·nant]

If you are pregnant, you are carrying a developing baby in your body (and you are definitely a woman). Pregnant women take excellent care of their health good for them and good for the baby.

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Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth.

Adjective
carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life

Adjective S.
filled with or attended with; "words fraught with meaning"; "an incident fraught with danger"; "a silence pregnant with suspense"

Adjective S.
rich in significance or implication; "a meaning look"; "pregnant with meaning"


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.


Pregnant

Preg"nant , a. [L. praegnans, -antis; prae before + genere, gignere, to beget: cf. F. pr'82gnant. 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." E. Everett. 3. Full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.; as, a pregnant youth. [Obs.] Evelyn.
Wherein the pregnant enemy does much.
Pregnant construction (Rhet.), one in which more is implied than is said; as, the beasts trembled forth from their dens, that is, came forth trembling with fright.

Pregnant

Preg"nant, n. A pregnant woman. [R.] Dunglison.

Pregnant

Preg"nant, a. [F. prenant taking. Cf. Pregnable.] Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt. [Obs.] " Pregnant to good pity." Shak.

Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth.

A pregnant woman.

Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt.

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Usage Examples

My parents got married late and they had kids late, so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or a homeowner by a certain age.

People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it's because you're sweating to death.

I tried the Atkins diet in the Seventies when pregnant with my son, as I didn't want to pile on the pounds. Now, so long as I'm healthy, I don't care what my scales say.

Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only way women could have full equality with men, who, until recently, couldn't get pregnant.

I got pregnant at 40 by surprise. It's funny, because when we found out we were pregnant, I said, 'Okay, let's experience that.' You just have to just go with it because it's rare.

It's funny, because I sometimes feel that I'm most creative when I'm pregnant.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Getting pregnant wasn't easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life.

I have run a general election campaign pregnant and ran Ed Miliband's leadership campaign commuting to London with a new baby so I already have my system set up.

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.

A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.

My mom was onstage when she was pregnant with me.

One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter.

I have been pregnant in so many movies it's ridiculous.

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

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