pregnant
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
pregnant
adj 1: carrying developing offspring within the body or being
about to produce new life [ant: {nonpregnant}]
2: rich in significance or implication; "a meaning look" [syn:
{meaning(a)}, {pregnant}, {significant}]
3: filled with or attended with; "words fraught with meaning";
"an incident fraught with danger"; "a silence pregnant with
suspense" [syn: {fraught(p)}, {pregnant}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pregnant \Preg"nant\, a. [L. praegnans, -antis; prae before +
genere, gignere, to beget: cf. F. pr['e]gnant. See {Gender},
2d {Kin}.]
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1. Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great
with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring
forth.
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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.
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3. Full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.;
as, a pregnant youth. [Obs.] --Evelyn.
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Wherein the pregnant enemy does much. --Shak.
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{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.
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from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
PREGNANT, pleading. A fulness in the pleadings which admits or involves a
matter which is favorable to the opposite party. 2. It is either an
affirmative pregnant, or negative pregnant. See Affirmative pregnant;
Negative pregnant.
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
170 Moby Thesaurus words for "pregnant":
abecedarian, aboriginal, abounding, abundant, allegorical,
antenatal, anticipating, associational, autochthonous, basal,
basic, beginning, big, big with child, big-laden, blooming,
bountiful, breeding, budding, bursting, bursting out, carrying,
carrying a fetus, central, charged, climacteric, conceptive,
conceptual, connotational, connotative, consequential, copious,
creative, critical, crucial, decisive, definable, denotational,
denotative, elemental, elementary, eloquent, embryonic, emergent,
esemplastic, exigent, expectant, expecting, expressive, extended,
extensional, exuberant, facund, fecund, fertile, fetal, figurative,
flourishing, formative, foundational, fraught, fructiferous,
fruitful, full of meaning, full of point, full of substance,
fundamental, generative, generous, genetic, germinal, gestating,
gestatory, gone, gravid, great, heavy, heavy with child,
ideational, ideative, imaginative, important, in embryo,
in its infancy, in ovo, in the bud, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate,
inchoative, incipient, incunabular, indicative, infant, infantile,
ingenious, initial, initiative, initiatory, inspired, intelligible,
intensional, interpretable, introductory, inventive, kairotic,
knocked up, loaded, lush, luxuriant, meaning, meaningful, meaty,
metaphorical, momentous, nascent, natal, notional, original,
originative, parturient, pithy, pivotal, plenteous, plentiful,
pointed, postnatal, preggers, prenatal, primal, primary, prime,
primeval, primitive, primogenial, primordial, pristine,
procreative, productive, proliferous, prolific, protogenic,
radical, readable, referential, replete, rich, rudimental,
rudimentary, seminal, sententious, shaping, significant,
significative, substantial, suggestive, superabundant, superfetate,
superimpregnated, swarming, symbolic, teeming, thriving,
transferred, uberous, up the spout, ur, visioned, weighty,
with child
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