Pregnant

Adjective

 * 1)  Carrying developing offspring within the body.
 * 2)  Having numerous possibilities or implications.
 * 3)  Fertile, prolific (usually of soil, ground etc.).
 * 4) * 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.

Synonyms

 * (carrying developing offspring):
 * (standard): expecting, expecting a baby, expectant, gravid (of animals only), with child, fertilized
 * (colloquial/slang): eating for two, having a bun in the oven, in a family way, knocked up, preggers, up the duff
 * (euphemistic): in an interesting condition, in a family way
 * (having many possibilities or implications): meaningful, significant
 * See also Thesaurus:pregnant

Hyponyms

 * in trouble

Thesaurus
abecedarian, aboriginal, abounding, abundant, allegorical, antenatal, anticipating, associational, autochthonous, basal, basic, beginning, big, big with child, big-laden, blooming, bountiful, breeding, budding, bursting, bursting out, carrying, carrying a fetus, central, charged, climacteric, conceptive, conceptual, connotational, connotative, consequential, copious, creative, critical, crucial, decisive, definable, denotational, denotative, elemental, elementary, eloquent, embryonic, emergent, esemplastic, exigent, expectant, expecting, expressive, extended, extensional, exuberant, facund, fecund, fertile, fetal, figurative, flourishing, formative, foundational, fraught, fructiferous, fruitful, full of meaning, full of point, full of substance, fundamental, generative, generous, genetic, germinal, gestating, gestatory, gone, gravid, great, heavy, heavy with child, ideational, ideative, imaginative, important, in embryo, in its infancy, in ovo, in the bud, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate, inchoative, incipient, incunabular, indicative, infant, infantile, ingenious, initial, initiative, initiatory, inspired, intelligible, intensional, interpretable, introductory, inventive, kairotic, knocked up, loaded, lush, luxuriant, meaning, meaningful, meaty, metaphorical, momentous, nascent, natal, notional, original, originative, parturient, pithy, pivotal, plenteous, plentiful, pointed, postnatal, preggers, prenatal, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, primordial, pristine, procreative, productive, proliferous, prolific, protogenic, radical, readable, referential, replete, rich, rudimental, rudimentary, seminal, sententious, shaping, significant, significative, substantial, suggestive, superabundant, superfetate, superimpregnated, swarming, symbolic, teeming, thriving, transferred, uberous, up the spout, ur, visioned, weighty, with child

Etymology
(compare archaic Modern French prégnant:), from Classical praegnans:, variant of praegnas:, probably from prae-: + gnasci:.

Translations

 * Arabic:, حبلى
 * Armenian: հղի
 * Old Armenian:, ,
 * Belarusian: цяжарная
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: бременна
 * Catalan: embarassada
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 有喜 ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: (of humans), drachtig (of animals),
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: ,
 * Finnish: adv
 * French: f only
 * German: (of humans),  (of animals)
 * Greek:
 * Hawaiian:
 * Hebrew:, בהיריון
 * Hindi: गर्भवती
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, , , ,
 * Irish: ,
 * Italian: incinta f only, gravida f only
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: 임신한
 * Kurdish: دوو گیان, جووت گیان, زگ, باردار
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian: grūta
 * Lithuanian: nėščia
 * Latvian: grūta
 * Lithuanian: nėščia


 * Malayalam: ഗര്‍ഭിണി
 * Maltese: tqal
 * Maléku Jaíka: fiúrusuf
 * Norwegian:, svanger (of humans), (of animals)
 * Old English:
 * Persian:, حامله
 * Polish: ciężarna
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: gravidă only
 * Russian:, в положении
 * Sanskrit: गर्भवती
 * Scots: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: бременит, трудан
 * Roman: bremenit, trudan
 * Slovak: tehotná
 * Spanish: embarazada, preñada, encinta (of humans), embarazado, embarazada (of animals)
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, havande
 * Tagalog: buntis
 * Telugu: గర్భిణి (garbhiNi), కడుపుతో ఉన్న (kaDuputO unna)
 * Thai: มีครรภ์, ตั้งครรภ์, ท้อง
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: вагітна
 * Vietnamese: có thai, có mang thai, có chửa
 * Welsh: beichiog
 * West Frisian:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: вагітна
 * Vietnamese: có thai, có mang thai, có chửa
 * Welsh: beichiog
 * West Frisian:


 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Romanian:


 * Swahili:
 * Turkish:

Adjective

 * 1) pregnant, having many possibilities or implications