gregnant

Adjective

pregnant (comparative more pregnant, superlative most pregnant)

1. (not comparable) Carrying developing offspring within the body.
   • I went to the doctor and, guess what, I’m five weeks pregnant!
   1. (not comparable, proscribed, sometimes) Of a couple: expecting a baby together.
      • We are pregnant.
2. (comparable) Meaningful, having numerous possibilities or implications; full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.
   • a pregnant pause

   Synonyms:

   meaningful, significant

3. (poetic) 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.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
4. Pervaded by something, usually sth intangible.
   • The operations center was pregnant with anxiety.
5. (obsolete) Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt.
   • play at subtill games; faire vertues all;
     To which the Grecians are most prompt and pregnantc. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

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