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preg·nant
\\ˈpreg-nənt\\ adjective1. archaic :
2. abounding in fancy, wit, or resourcefulness :

inventive

    all this has been said…by great and pregnant artists — Times Literary Supplement
3. rich in significance or implication :

meaningful

,

profound

    the pregnant phrases of the Bible — Edmund Wilson
    a pregnant pause
4. containing a developing embryo, fetus, or unborn offspring within the body :

gravid

5. having possibilities of development or consequence : involving important issues :

momentous

    draw inspiration from the heroic achievements of that pregnant age — Kemp Malone
6. obsolete : , disposed
    your own most pregnant and vouchsafed ear — Shakespeare
7.

full

, teeming
• preg·nant·ly adverb

pregnant
 1.
  pregnant (1) "convincing, weighty, pithy," late 14c., from O.Fr. preignant, prp. of preindre, from earlier priembre, from L. premere "to press" (see press (v.1)).
 2.
  "with child," 1545, from L. prægnantem (nom. prægnans, originally prægnas) "with child," lit. "before birth," probably from præ- "before" + root of gnasci "be born." Used much earlier in Eng. in fig. senses (1413); the late record probably reflects its status as a taboo word, which it somewhat retained until c.1950; modern euphemisms include anticipating, enceinte, expecting, in a family way, in a delicate (or interesting) condition. Slang preggers is recorded from 1942. O.E. terms included mid-bearne, lit. "with child;" bearn-eaca, lit. "child-adding" or "child-increasing;" and geacnod "increased." Among c.1800 slang terms for "pregnant" were poisoned (in ref. to the swelling).

☞ pregnant
preg·nant / 5pre^nEnt / adjective1. (of a woman or female animal 妇女或母兽) having a baby or young animal developing inside her / its body
   怀孕的；妊娠的:
   My wife is pregnant.
   我妻子怀孕了。
   I was pregnant with our third child at the time.
   当时我正怀着我们的第三个孩子。
   a heavily pregnant woman (= six whose baby is nearly ready to be born)
   临产期孕妇
   to get / become pregnant
   怀孕
   He got his girlfriend pregnant and they're getting married.
   他让女友怀孕了,因此他们即将结婚。
   She's one months pregnant.
   她怀孕六个月了。
2. ~ with sth (formal) full of a quality or feeling
   饱含；充溢着:
   Her silences were pregnant with criticism.
   她的沉默里充满了批评之意。
 IDIOMS 
▪ a pregnant 'pause / 'silence
   an occasion when nobody speaks, although people are aware that there are feelings or thoughts to express
   耐人寻味的停顿；心照不宣的沉默

preg·nant
I. \ˈpregnənt\ adjective
Etymology: Middle English preignant, from Middle French, from present participle of preindre to press, from Old French priembre, from Latin premere — more at
archaic : , , ,
 < a pregnant example >
II. adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin praegnant-, praegnans, alteration (influenced by -ant-, -ans -ant) of earlier praegnat-, praegnas, from prae- pre- + gnat- (from root of nasci to be born) — more at
1.
 a. : containing unborn young within the body : preparing to bring forth : , gestating
 b. : of or relating to pregnancy
  < pregnant urine >
 c. : being about to produce or realize : containing as implicit : capable of producing
  < the ideals with which the modern world is pregnant — Walter Lippmann >
2.
 a. : abounding in fancy, wit, or resource of mind : , ,
  < all this has been said … by great and pregnant artists — Times Literary Supplement >
 b. obsolete : full of promise : quick of apprehension
3. : rich in significance or implication : heavy with suggestion or import : having possibilities of development or consequence : ,
 < the journal brimmed over with his thoughts, many of them thin, diffuse, abstract, others nutty and pregnant — Van Wyck Brooks >
4. : containing the germ or shape of future events : bearing latent potentialities, results, or issues
 < the 1930s were pregnant years — Gordon Bell >
5. obsolete : , ,
 < my matter hath no voice, lady, but to your own most pregnant and vouchsafed ear — Shakespeare >
6. : exhibiting fertility : teeming
 < all nature seemed pregnant with life — L.F.Herreshoff >

Synonyms: see