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pregnant

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See also:prégnant

English

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishpreignant, fromOld Frenchpreignant,pregnant, alsoprenant (compare archaic Modern Frenchprégnant), and their source,Latinpraegnāns(“pregnant”), probably fromprae-(“pre-”) +*gnāscī, an archaic form ofnāscī(“to be born”). DisplacedOld Englishbearnēacen (literally "child-enlarged").

Adjective

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pregnant (comparativemorepregnant,superlativemostpregnant)

  1. (chiefly not comparable) Carrying developingoffspring within the body.
    I went to the doctor and, guess what, I’mpregnant!
    I becamepregnant in July 2014.
    • 2017 July 13, Bonnie Rochman, “Mothers-To-Be Aren’t Told Enough About Genetic Testing”, inTime‎[1]:
      Once upon a time, not so long ago, women gotpregnant and spent nine months in suspense before finding out if they were having a boy or a girl. But today? That waiting game is completely outdated, even quaint.
    • 2025 February 19, Christian Wolmar, “Mind your language...”, inRAIL, number1029, page34:
      It suggests thatpregnant women should be calledpregnant people, presumably on the basis that just perhaps there may be apregnant man somewhere.
    1. (sometimes proscribed) Of acouple: expecting a baby together.
      We arepregnant.
  2. (comparable) Meaningful, having numerouspossibilities orimplications; full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.
    apregnant pause
  3. (poetic)Fecund,fertile,prolific (usually of soil, ground, etc.).
    • 1590,Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, inThe Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] forWilliam Ponsonbie,→OCLC:
      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 herpregnant flesh they shortly fructifide.
  4. (obsolete) Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt.
  5. (obsolete) Ready-witted; clever; ingenious.
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Translations
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carrying developing offspring within the body
having many possibilities or implications
fertile—seefertile
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Noun

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pregnant (pluralpregnants)

  1. A pregnant person.
    • 1843, William Robert Wilde,Austria: Its Literary, Scientific, and Medical Institutions:
      The Entbundenen, or those already delivered, are separate from thosepregnants awaiting their accouchement
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pregnant person—seepregnant woman

Etymology 2

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Apparently fromMiddle Frenchpregnant,preignant(“pressing, compelling”), present participle ofprembre(“to press”), fromLatinpremere(“to press”).

Adjective

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pregnant (comparativemorepregnant,superlativemostpregnant)

  1. (now rare)Compelling;clear,evident.[from 14th c.]
    • 1751,[Tobias] Smollett,The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume(please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […],→OCLC:
      Peregrine was in a little time a distinguished character, not only for his acuteness of apprehension, but also for that mischievous fertility of fancy, of which we have already given suchpregnant examples.

References

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  • “Mila Kunis Tells Fathers-to-Be to Stop Saying 'We're Pregnant'”, inABC News‎[3], 2014 June 11, archived fromthe original on2014-06-12.

Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromMiddle Frenchpregnant, fromOld Frenchpregnant, fromLatinpraegnāns.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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pregnant (comparativepregnanter,superlativepregnantst)

  1. poignant,incisive
  2. meaningful,polysemic
  3. (obsolete)important

Declension

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Declension ofpregnant
uninflectedpregnant
inflectedpregnante
comparativepregnanter
positivecomparativesuperlative
predicative/adverbialpregnantpregnanterhetpregnantst
hetpregnantste
indefinitem./f. sing.pregnantepregnanterepregnantste
n. sing.pregnantpregnanterpregnantste
pluralpregnantepregnanterepregnantste
definitepregnantepregnanterepregnantste
partitivepregnantspregnanters—

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromGermanprägnant andFrenchprégnant.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /preɡˈnant/
  • Rhymes:-ant
  • Hyphenation:preg‧nant

Adjective

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pregnant m orn (feminine singularpregnantă,masculine pluralpregnanți,feminine and neuter pluralpregnante)

  1. (literary)evident,marked,manifest
    Synonym:(literary)vădit

Declension

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Declension ofpregnant
singularplural
masculineneuterfemininemasculineneuterfeminine
nominative-
accusative		indefinitepregnantpregnantăpregnanțipregnante
definitepregnantulpregnantapregnanțiipregnantele
genitive-
dative		indefinitepregnantpregnantepregnanțipregnante
definitepregnantuluipregnanteipregnanțilorpregnantelor

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Swedish

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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pregnant (comparativepregnantare,superlativepregnantast)

  1. pregnant (clear and pithy, of an expression, language, or the like)
  2. striking (distinctive, pronounced)

Usage notes

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Pregnant as in carrying a baby isgravid (of a human) ordräktig (of an animal).

Declension

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Inflection ofpregnant
Indefinitepositivecomparativesuperlative1
common singularpregnantpregnantarepregnantast
neuter singularpregnantpregnantarepregnantast
pluralpregnantapregnantarepregnantast
masculine plural2pregnantepregnantarepregnantast
Definitepositivecomparativesuperlative
masculine singular3pregnantepregnantarepregnantaste
allpregnantapregnantarepregnantaste

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

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