Thesaurus: pregnant

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1. a. Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth.
2. a. Heavy with important contents, significance, or issue; full of consequence or results; weighty; as, pregnant replies.
3. a. Full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.; as, a pregnant youth.
4. n. A pregnant woman.
5. a. Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt.
6. adj. carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life
7. adj. rich in significance or implication
8. adj. filled with or attended with
9. 1. Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth. 2. Heavy with important contents, significance, or issue; full of consequence or results; weighty; as, pregnant replies. " A pregnant argument." Prynne. " A pregnant brevity." E. Everett. 3. Full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.; as, a pregnant youth. [Obs.] Evelyn. Wherein the pregnant enemy does much. Shak. Pregnant construction (Rhet.), one in which more is implied than is said; as, the beasts trembled forth from their dens, that is, came forth trembling with fright. A pregnant woman. [R.] Dunglison. Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt. [Obs.] " Pregnant to good pity." Shak.
10. A pregnant woman. [R.] Dunglison.
11. j:100 a. carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life