pregnant[adjective]Synonyms:- expectant, big
or heavy with child, expecting
(informal), in the club
(Brit. slang), with child
- meaningful, charged, eloquent, expressive, loaded, pointed, significant, telling, weighty
Contrasted words: barren, infertile, delivered, postpartum
Related Idioms: in an interesting condition, in the family way, with child (
or young)
Related Words: consequential,
important,
momentous,
significant,
weighty [TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
preg‧nant S3 /ˈpreɡnənt/
adjective[
Date: 1400-1500;
Language: Latin;
Origin: praegnans, from praegnas, from prae- ( ⇒ pre-) + gnatus 'born']
1. if a woman or female animal is pregnant, she has an unborn baby growing inside her body ⇒
pregnancy:
medical care for pregnant women I knew right away that I was pregnant. I thought I was too old to get pregnant.twenty weeks/three months etc pregnant She’s about five months pregnant.pregnant with Maria was pregnant with her second child. I didn’t mean to get her pregnant (=make her pregnant). His wife was heavily pregnant (=almost ready to give birth).2. pregnant pause/silence a pause or silence which is full of meaning or emotion:
He stopped, and there was a pregnant pause.3. pregnant with something formal containing a lot of a quality:
Every phrase in this poem is pregnant with meaning. [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲