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Pregnant
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- 1 Carrying developing offspring within the body. not-comparable
"I went to the doctor and, guess what, I’m five weeks pregnant!"
- 2 Compelling; clear, evident. archaic
"Peregrine was in a little time a distinguished character, not only for his acuteness of apprehension, but also for that mischievous fertility of fancy, of which we have already given such pregnant examples."
- 3 Carrying developing offspring within the body.; Of a couple: expecting a baby together. not-comparable, proscribed, sometimes
"We are pregnant."
- 4 Meaningful, having numerous possibilities or implications; full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc. comparable
"a pregnant pause"
- 5 Fecund, fertile, prolific (usually of soil, ground, etc.). poetic
"The sunne-beames bright vpon her body playd, / Being through former bathing mollifide, / And pierst into her wombe, where they embayd / With so sweet sence and secret power vnspide, / That in her pregnant flesh they shortly fructifide."
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- 6 Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt. obsolete
"play at subtill games; faire vertues all; To which the Grecians are most prompt and pregnant"
- 7 Ready-witted; clever; ingenious. obsolete
- 1 carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life wordnet
- 2 filled with or attended with wordnet
- 3 rich in significance or implication wordnet
- 1 A pregnant person.
"The Entbundenen, or those already delivered, are separate from those pregnants awaiting their accouchement"
Etymology
From Middle English preignant, from Old French preignant, pregnant, also prenant (compare archaic Modern French prégnant), and their source, Latin praegnāns (“pregnant”), probably from prae- (“pre-”) + *gnāscī, an archaic form of nāscī (“to be born”). Displaced Old English bearnēacen (literally "child-enlarged").
From Middle English preignant, from Old French preignant, pregnant, also prenant (compare archaic Modern French prégnant), and their source, Latin praegnāns (“pregnant”), probably from prae- (“pre-”) + *gnāscī, an archaic form of nāscī (“to be born”). Displaced Old English bearnēacen (literally "child-enlarged").
Apparently from Middle French pregnant, preignant (“pressing, compelling”), present participle of prembre (“to press”), from Latin premere (“to press”).
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