pregnant

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Carrying developing offspring within the body.

   I went to the doctor and, guess what, I’m five weeks pregnant!

2. 2
   adj

   Meaningful, having numerous possibilities or implications; full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.

   a pregnant pause

3. 3
   adj

   Fecund, fertile, prolific (usually of soil, ground, etc.).

   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.

4. 4
   adj

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

   play at subtill games; faire vertues all; To which the Grecians are most prompt and pregnant

5. 5
   noun

   A pregnant person.

   The Entbundenen, or those already delivered, are separate from those pregnants awaiting their accouchement

6. 6
   adj

   Compelling; clear, evident.

   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.

7. 7
   adj

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

8. 8
   adj

   filled with or attended with

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").