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pregnant Definition


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pregnant
adj
    1. Said of a female mammal, including humans: carrying a child or young in the womb.
      Thesaurus: gestating, expecting, impregnated, expectant, gravid, with child, be in the family way (slang), parturient, teeming, enceinte.
    2. Said of a remark or pause, etc: loaded with significance.
      Thesaurus: meaningful, charged, pointed, significant, ominous, weighty, full, loaded, pithy, telling, suggestive, heavy, eloquent, expressive; Antonym: jejune.
    3. Fruitful in results.
Derivative: pregnantly
adverb
    Etymology: 15c: from Latin praegnans, from prae- before + (g)nasci to be born.



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