pregnant

Meaning

Adj

1. (not-comparable) Carrying developing offspring within the body.
2. (not-comparable, proscribed, sometimes) Carrying developing offspring within the body.
3. (comparable) Meaningful, having numerous possibilities or implications; full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.
4. (poetic) Fecund, fertile, prolific (usually of soil, ground, etc.).
5. (obsolete) Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt.
6. (obsolete) Ready-witted; clever; ingenious.

Noun

A pregnant person.

Synonyms

with young

with child

expecting

expectant

gravid

conceive

significant

be pregnant

in the family way

fraught

big with child

enceinte

round

heavy

meaning

big

conceived

impregnated

full

meaningful

be in the family way

full of meaning

become pregnant

gestating

gestation

god

gone

hefty

imaginative

in a family way

influential

infold

inventive

labored

laboured

leaden

loaded

logy

lumpish

massive

onerous

parturient

pithy

ponderous

powerless

preggers

puff up

replete

reproductive

resourceful

roll up

saturnine

stark

stodgy

straight-out

stream

suggestive

swaddle

swathe

swollen

thorough

thoroughgoing

unabridged

unfortunate

up the duff

waiting

waterlogged

weighty

wounded

be with child

ready and waiting

up the spout

pregnant with

full stomach

thoro

behaviour

conception

pregnancy

in labor

in the spud line

sperminated

enwombed

preggo

heisted

kaishbook

lizzied

absolute

anticipant

anticipative

beefy

behavior

belly

bundle

carry

childing

clear

complete

conduct

cuddle

cumbrous

enlarged

expressive

fecund

fertile

filled

flush

generative

gestate

Translations

enceinte

schwanger

embarazada

encinta

zwanger

preñada

drachtig

trächtig

gebe

hamile

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpɹɛɡnənt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: preignant

In summary

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").