pregnant
Meaning of pregnant
adjective
- (of a woman or female animal) having a child or young developing in the uterus.
she was heavily pregnant with her second child
she was six months pregnant
- full of meaning; significant or suggestive.
a pregnant pause
a development pregnant with implications
late Middle English: from Latin praegnant-, probably from prae ‘before’ + the base of gnasci ‘be born’.
Information about pregnant
- It is an adjective.
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CatalanHyphenation of pregnant
preg-nant
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- pregnant is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
pregnant synonyms
Meaning meaning:
Meaning fraught:
Meaning used to describe a pregnant woman or a man who is about to become a father:
Meaning an enclosure or the enclosing wall of a fortified place:
Meaning regard (something) as likely to happen:
Meaning (of a woman) pregnant:
Meaning (of a hen) sitting or ready to sit on eggs:
Meaning carrying eggs or young; pregnant:
Meaning (of a woman or female mammal) about to give birth; in labour:
Meaning soak or saturate (something) with a substance:
Meaning support and move (someone or something) from one place to another:
Meaning carry the weight of; support:
Meaning cause (a space or container) to become full or almost full:
Meaning having an electric charge:
Meaning of great weight; difficult to lift or move:
Meaning filled or well-supplied with something:
Meaning be full of or swarming with:
Meaning communicating something that is not directly expressed:
Meaning fluent or persuasive in speaking or writing:
Meaning tending to suggest an idea:
Meaning effectively conveying thought or feeling:
Meaning (of a word, statement, or question) charged with an underlying meaning or implication:
Meaning having a sharpened or tapered tip or end:
Meaning having a striking or revealing effect; significant:
Meaning making interesting or significant information known, especially of a personal nature:
Meaning weighing a great deal; heavy:
Translation of pregnant
- Spanish: ovada, embarazada, encinta, preñada, grávida, gestante
- French: enceinte
- German: schwanger, gravid
- Italian: incinta, gravida
- Portuguese: grávida, prenha
Words that rhyme with pregnant
nant, emanant, misdemeanant, nonemanant, Covenant, D'Avenant, Davenant, Lieutenant, appurtenant, avenant, cotenant, covenant, detenant, discovenant, distenant, entreprenant, intervenant, lieutenant, moyenant, nontenant, oxygenant, prevenant, rejuvenant, remenant, retenant, revenant, setenant, sublieutenant, subtenant, sustenant, tenant, tertenant, uncovenant, underlieutenant, undertenant, untenant, Premalignant, benignant, coregnant, designant, impregnant, indignant, malignant, nonmalignant, nonpregnant, omnipregnant, oppugnant, overpregnant, poignant, premalignant
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