pregnant

1. a. Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth. Source: opted

2. a. Heavy with important contents, significance, or issue; full of consequence or results; weighty; as, pregnant replies. Source: opted

3. a. Full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.; as, a pregnant youth. Source: opted

4. n. A pregnant woman. Source: opted

5. a. Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt. Source: opted

6. adj. carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life Source: wordnet

7. adj. rich in significance or implication Source: wordnet

8. adj. filled with or attended with Source: wordnet

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. Source: webster

10. A pregnant woman. [R.] Dunglison. Source: adambom

11. j:100 a. carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life Source: ecdict

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