pregnantadjective
uk/ˈpreɡ.nənt/us/ˈpreɡ.nənt/pregnant adjective (FEMALE)
B1 (of a woman and some female animals) having a baby or babies developing inside the womb:
She's five and a half months pregnant.
My mother stopped smoking when she became pregnant.
He believes that men who get (= make) young girls pregnant should be severely punished.
My sister is pregnant with twins.
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- Faintness and morning sickness can be signs that you are pregnant.
- Heavily pregnant by now, she lowered herself carefully into the chair.
- Now six months pregnant, Gina's belly had begun to swell.
- She thought she was pregnant, but it turned out to be a false alarm .
- I was absolutely enormous when I was pregnant.
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Obstetrics: pregnancy
- anti-choice
- artificial insemination
- backstreet abortion
- carry
- child
- ectopic pregnancy
- embryo
- embryonic
- expect
- family
- fruitful
- full-term
- have a bun in the oven idiom
- IVF
- late-term
- pro-choice
- pro-life
- surrogacy
- trimester
- trouble
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pregnant adjective (MEANING)
filled with meaning or importance that has not yet been expressed or understood:
There followed a pregnant pause in which both knew what the other was thinking but neither knew what to say.
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Meaning & significance
- add
- add up to sth
- badge
- connotation
- denotation
- drift
- drive
- hermeneutic
- hermeneutics
- how
- loaded
- mean
- meaning
- modality
- other
- put words in/into sb's mouth idiom
- significantly
- signify
- speak to sb idiom
- word
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