preg|nant

preg|nant
preg|nant1 «PREHG nuhnt», adjective.
1. soon to have a baby; having an embryo or embryos developing in the uterus; being with child or young.
2. filled; loaded: »

The silence was pregnant with tragedy (Harper's).

3. Figurative. fertile; rich; abounding: »

a mind pregnant with ideas.

4. Figurative. filled with meaning; significant: »

Most proverbs are pregnant sayings. Historians will one day record our country's successes and failures in world affairs during these pregnant middle years of the twentieth century (Atlantic).

5. Obsolete. disposed; ready: »

The pregnant instrument of wrath Prest for this blow (Shakespeare).

╂[< Latin praegnāns, -antis, variant of praegnās, -ātis < prae- before + unrecorded gna- to bear young]
–preg´nant|ly, adverb.
preg|nant2 «PREHG nuhnt», adjective.
Archaic. (of an argument, evidence, reason, or the like) urgent; weighty; compelling: »

One of the constables, besides the pregnant proof already produced, offers to make oath (Scott).

 SYNONYM(S): cogent.
╂[< Old French pregnant, and preignant violent, pressing; (literally) present participle of preindre < Latin premere to press]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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  • preg´nant|ly — preg|nant1 «PREHG nuhnt», adjective. 1. soon to have a baby; having an embryo or embryos developing in the uterus; being with child or young. 2. filled; loaded: »The silence was pregnant with tragedy (Harper s). 3. Figurative. fertile; rich;… …   Useful english dictionary

  • im|preg|nant — «ihm PREHG nuhnt», noun. a material or substance which has been impregnated into something else, especially as a preservative: »... a waffle shaped network of lead holds the impregnant that keeps the battery alive (New Scientist). ╂[< Late… …   Useful english dictionary

  • pseu|do|preg|nant — «SOO doh PREHG nuhnt», adjective. affected with or characterized by pseudopregnancy: »Ova were transferred to the ovidts of three pseudopregnant females (that is, mice physiologically prepared for motherhood by mating with sterile males) (New… …   Useful english dictionary

  • un|preg|nant — «uhn PREHG nuhnt», adjective. Obsolete. unapt; unfit: »This deed…makes me unpregnant And dull to all proceedings (Shakespeare) …   Useful english dictionary

  • nant — ab·so·nant; al·tis·o·nant; an·ti·det·o·nant; be·nig·nant; be·nig·nant·ly; con·glu·ti·nant; con·so·nant·ism; con·so·nant·ly; con·so·nant·ness; con·tam·i·nant; cul·mi·nant; dis·so·nant; dom·i·nant·ly; elim·i·nant; em·a·nant; ex·am·i·nant;… …   English syllables

  • preg — com·preg; com·preg·nate; im·preg; im·preg·na·bil·i·ty; im·preg·na·tion; im·preg·na·tor; pa·preg; preg·na·ble; preg·nance; preg·nan·cy; preg·nane; preg·nant·ly; preg·nate; preg·nene; preg·nen·in·o·lone; preg·nen·o·lone; preg·gers; pre·preg;… …   English syllables

  • pregnant — preg·nant …   English syllables

  • pregnantly — preg·nant·ly …   English syllables

  • preggers — /preg euhrz/, adj. Chiefly Brit. Informal. pregnant1. (def. 1). [1940 45; PREG(NANT) + ERS] * * * …   Universalium

  • pregnant — preg|nant Mot Agut Adjectiu invariable …   Diccionari Català-Català

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