pregnant

adj

1. (not-comparable)Carrying developing offspring within the body.

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

   “I became pregnant in July 2014.”

   “Once upon a time, not so long ago, women got pregnant and spent nine months in suspense before finding out if they were having a boy or a girl. But today? That waiting game is completely outdated, even quaint.”

   “It suggests that pregnant women should be called pregnant people, presumably on the basis that just perhaps there may be a pregnant man somewhere.”

2. (not-comparable, proscribed, sometimes)Carrying developing offspring within the body.

   “We are pregnant.”

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

   “a pregnant pause”

   “wherein the pregnant enemy does much”

   “The many tear-jerkers deal with finality, with death and the end of love, with a stoicism pregnant with feeling.”

4. (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.”

5. Pervaded by something, usually sth intangible.

   “The operations center was pregnant with anxiety.”

6. (obsolete)Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt.

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

7. (obsolete)Ready-witted; clever; ingenious.
8. (archaic)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.”

noun

1. A pregnant person.

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