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Webster 1913 Edition

Pregnant

Preg′nant

,
Adj.
[L.
praegnans
,
-antis
;
prae
before +
genere
,
gignere
, to beget: cf. F.
prégnant
. See
Gender
, 2d
Kin
.]
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.
Shakespeare
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.

Preg′nant

,
Noun.
A pregnant woman.
[R.]
Dunglison.

Preg′nant

,
Adj.
[F.
prenant
taking. Cf.
Pregnable
.]
Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt.
[Obs.]
“ Pregnant to good pity.”
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition

Pregnant

PREG'NANT

,
Adj.
[L. proegnans; supposed to be compounded of proe, before, and geno; Gr. to beget.]
1.
Being with young, as a female; breeding; teeming.
2.
Fruitful; fertile; impregnating; as pregnant streams.
3.
Full of consequence; as a pregnant instance of infatuation.
An egregious and pregnant instance how far virtue surpasses ingenuity.
4.
East to admit or receive.
5.
Free; kind; ready; witty; apt. [Not proper.]
6.
Plain; clear; evident; full. [Not in use.]

Definition 2024

pregnant

pregnant

See also: prégnant

English

Alternative forms

Adjective

pregnant ‎(comparative more pregnant, superlative most pregnant)

  1. (not comparable) Carrying developing offspring within the body.
    I went to the doctor and, guess what, I'm pregnant!
    1. Expecting a baby together.
      We are pregnant.‎
  2. (comparable) Having numerous possibilities or implications; full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.
    a pregnant pause
    • Shakespeare
      wherein the pregnant enemy does much
  3. (now poetic) Fertile, prolific (usually of soil, ground etc.).
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vi:
      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.
  4. (obsolete) Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt.
    • Shakespeare
      Pregnant to good pity.

Synonyms

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

carrying developing offspring within the body
  • Afrikaans: swanger
  • Albanian: shtatzënë (sq)
  • Arabic: حَامِل (ar) ‎(ḥāmil), حُبْلَى ‎(ḥublā)
  • Armenian: հղի (hy) ‎(hłi)
    Old Armenian: յղի ‎(yłi), յղացեալ ‎(yłacʿeal), սաղմնառեալ ‎(sałmnaṙeal)
  • Asturian: preñada
  • Azeri: hamilə (az)
  • Belarusian: цяжа́рны ‎(cjažárny)
  • Bengali: গর্ভবতী ‎(gôrbhôbôti)
  • Bikol Central: bados
  • Bulgarian: бре́мен ‎(brémen)
  • Burmese: ကိုယ်ဝန်ရှိ (my) ‎(kuiywanhri.), မ်းကြီး ‎(m:kri:), ဗိုက်ကြီး (my) ‎(buikkri:) (vulgar)
  • Catalan: embarassat, encinta f, prenyat, gràvid
  • Chinese:
    Cantonese: 懷孕, 怀孕 ‎(waai4 jan6), 大肚 ‎(daai6 tou5) (colloquial), 懷胎, 怀胎 ‎(waai4 toi1), 有喜 ‎(jau5 hei2) (euphemism and colloquial), 有咗 ‎(jau5 zo2) (euphemism and colloquial), 有身己 ‎(jau5 san1 gei2)
    Mandarin: 懷孕 (zh), 怀孕 (zh) ‎(huáiyùn), 有喜 (zh) ‎(yǒuxǐ) (euphemism and colloquial), 有了 (zh) ‎(yǒule) (euphemism and colloquial)
    Min Nan: 懷胎 (zh-min-nan), 怀胎 ‎(hoâi-thai), 有身 (zh-min-nan) ‎(ū-sin), 病囝 ‎(pēⁿ-kiáⁿ, pīⁿ-kiáⁿ), 大腹肚 (zh-min-nan) ‎(tōa-pak-tó͘, tōa-bak-tó͘, toā-bat-tó͘), 有囡仔 ‎(ū-gín-á), 有矣 ‎(ū--ah), 帶膭, 带膭 ‎(tòa-kūi), 大肚胿 ‎(tōa-tō͘-kui), 懷孕 (zh-min-nan), 怀孕 (zh-min-nan) ‎(hôai-īn, hôai-ūn), 有胎 ‎(ū-the), 有身孕 ‎(ū-sin-īn)
  • Crimean Tatar: ağırayaqlı, yüklü, hamile
  • Czech: těhotný (cs)
  • Dalmatian: prin
  • Danish: gravid (da), (heavily pregnant) højgravid
  • Dutch: zwanger (nl) (of humans), drachtig (nl) (of animals), pregnant (nl)
  • Esperanto: graveda
  • Estonian: rase (et), tiine
  • Faroese: við barn, upp á vegin, tvílívað f
  • Finnish: raskaana oleva (fi)
  • French: enceinte (fr) f
  • Friulian: gravide, incinte
  • Georgian: ფეხმძიმე ‎(pexmʒime), ორსული ‎(orsuli)
  • German: schwanger (de) (of humans), trächtig (de) (of animals)
  • Greek: έγκυος (el) ‎(énkyos)
    Ancient: ἔγκυος ‎(énkuos)
  • Greenlandic: naartusoq, ilumittoq
  • Gujarati: સગર્ભા ‎(sagarbhā)
  • Haitian Creole: ansent
  • Hawaiian: hāpai
  • Hebrew: מעובר \ מְעֻבָּר ‎(m'ubár), בהיריון \ בְּהֵרָיוֹן ‎(b'herayón), הָרָה (he) ‎(haré)
  • Hindi: गर्भवती (hi) ‎(garbhavtī), अर्थगर्भित ‎(arthagarbhit), भावपूर्ण ‎(bhāvpūrṇ), परिग्राही ‎(parigrāhī), अर्थपूर्ण ‎(arthapūrṇ), गर्भिणी (hi) ‎(garbhiṇī), परिपूर्ण (hi) ‎(paripūrṇ)
  • Hungarian: terhes (hu)
  • Icelandic: óléttur, ófrískur, þungaður, barnshafandi (is), vanfær
  • Ido: gravida (io)
  • Ilocano: masikog
  • Indonesian: hamil (id)
  • Irish: torrach, ag iompar clainne
  • Italian: incinta (it) f, gravida (it) f, pregna (it) f
  • Japanese: 妊娠している (ja) ‎(にんしんしている, ninshin shite iru) (verb), (euphemism and colloquial) おめでた ‎(omedeta)
  • Norman: encheinte f
  • Kazakh: жүкті (kk) ‎(jükti), екіқабат ‎(ekiqabat)
  • Khmer: ទ្រង់គភ៌ ‎(trʊəŋ koa), ពពោះ ‎(pɔɔ pʊəh), មានគភ៌ ‎(mien koa), មានផ្ទៃ ‎(mien ptey), មានផ្ទៃពោះ ‎(mien ptey pʊəh), មានពោះពុង ‎(mien pʊəh puŋ), កំផើម ‎(kɑmpʰaəm) (pejorative), ទំងន់ ‎(tumŋʊən), ស្ពាយបាត្រ ‎(spiey baat) (slang)
  • Korean: 임신하다 (ko) ‎(imsinhada)
  • Kurdish:
    Sorani: دوو گیان ‎(du gyan), جووت گیان ‎(cut gyan), زگ ‎(zig), باردار (ku) ‎(bardar)
  • Kyrgyz: жүктүү (ky) ‎(cüktüü), бооз (ky) ‎(booz), боюнда бар ‎(boyunda bar)
  • Lao: ພາມານ ‎(phā mān), ມີຄັນ ‎(mī khan), ຖືພາ ‎(thư̄ phā), ມານ ‎(mān), ມີທ້ອງ ‎(mī thǭng), ມີລູກ ‎(mī lūk), ຄັບພະ ‎(khap pha), ຊົງຄັບ ‎(song khap), ຕັ້ງທ້ອງ ‎(tang thǭng), ຖືພາຄາທ້ອງ ‎(thư̄ phā khā thǭng), ຖືພາມານ ‎(thư̄ phā mān)
  • Latin: gravidus, praegnās
  • Latvian: grūts, grūsns
  • Lithuanian: nėščia f
  • Lü:
  • Macedonian: бремен ‎(bremen), труден ‎(truden)
  • Malay: (of animals) bunting, (of humans) hamil, mengandung, (euphimism,of humans) berbadan dua
  • Malayalam: ഗര്‍ഭിണി ‎(gar‍bhiṇi)
  • Maltese: tqal
  • Maléku Jaíka: fiúrusuf
  • Manchu: dabkvri, jursu, sucilembi
  • Maori: hapū, āhua (mi)
  • Mongolian: жирэмсэн (mn) ‎(žiremsen)
  • Neapolitan: prena f
  • Northern Thai:
  • Norwegian:
    Bokmål: gravid, svanger (of humans), drektig (no) (of animals); (heavily pregnant) høygravid, høggravid
    Nynorsk: gravid, (heavily pregnant) høggravid
  • Occitan: prenha f
  • Old English: bearnēacen
  • Persian: باردار (fa) ‎(bârdâr), حامله (fa) ‎(hâmele), آبستن (fa) ‎(âbestan)
  • Polish: ciężarny (pl)
  • Portuguese: grávida (pt) f, prenhe (pt) m, f, (colloquial) prenha (pt) f
  • Punjabi: गर्भिणी ‎(garbhiṇi)
  • Quechua: cicu
  • Romanian: gravid, însărcinat (ro), borțos (ro)
  • Romansch: en speranza
  • Russian: бере́менный (ru) ‎(berémennyj), (euphemism and colloquial) в положе́нии (ru) ‎(v položénii), брюха́тый (ru) ‎(brjuxátyj) (slang)
  • Sanskrit: गर्भवती (sa) ‎(garbhavatī)
  • Sardinian: pringiu, prinzu, prossimu
  • Scots: buggen, biggen
  • Scottish Gaelic: torrach, trom
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic: бремѐнит, тру́дан
    Roman: bremènit (sh), trúdan (sh)
  • Slovak: tehotný
  • Slovene: noseči
  • Sorbian:
    Lower Sorbian: samodruga f
  • Spanish: embarazado (es), preñado (es) m, encinta (es) f
  • Swahili: wajamzito (sw)
  • Swedish: gravid (sv), havande (sv), på smällen (sv) (slang)
  • Tagalog: buntis (tl)
  • Tajik: ҳомила ‎(homila), ҳомиладор (tg) ‎(homilador), бордор ‎(bordor), обистан (tg) ‎(obistan)
  • Tatar: йөкле ‎(yökle)
  • Telugu: గర్భిణి (te) ‎(garbhiṇi), కడుపుతో ఉన్న ‎(kaḍuputō unna)
  • Thai: มีครรภ์ ‎(mee kan), ตั้งครรภ์ ‎(dtâng kan), ท้อง (th) ‎(tóng)
  • Tibetan: ཕྲུ་གུ་སྐྱེ་ཡག་ཡོད་པ ‎(phru gu skye yag yod pa)
  • Turkish: gebe (tr), hamile (tr)
  • Turkmen: göwreli
  • Ukrainian: вагі́тний (uk) f ‎(vahítnyj)
  • Urdu: حاملہ ‎(hāmila)
  • Uyghur: ھامىلىدار ‎(hamilidar)
  • Uzbek: homilador (uz), bo'g'oz (uz)
  • Vietnamese: có thai, có mang thai, có chửa (vi)
  • Waray-Waray: burod
  • Welsh: beichiog (cy)
  • West Frisian: swier (fy)
  • Yiddish: שוואַנגער ‎(shvanger), מעוברת ‎(muberes), מעוברתדיק ‎(muberesdik), טראָגעדיק ‎(trogedik), בײַכלדיק ‎(baykhldik) (pejorative), סמיקעדיק ‎(smikedik) (of animals)

Noun

pregnant ‎(plural pregnants)

  1. A pregnant woman.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Dunglison to this entry?)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowing from German prägnant and French prégnant.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /preɡˈnant/

Adjective

pregnant m, n ‎(feminine singular pregnantă, masculine plural pregnanți, feminine and neuter plural pregnante)

  1. pregnant (having many possibilities or implications)

Declension

Etymology

From Middle English preignant, from Old French preignant, pregnant, also prenant (compare archaic Modern French prégnant), partly from Old French preindre, priembre ‎(“to press”), from Latin premere ‎(“to press”), and partly from Classical Latin praegnans, variant of praegnas, probably from prae- ‎(“pre-”) + gnascī ‎(“to be born”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɹɛɡnənt/

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