Definitions for pregnant

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pregnant preg·nant

Spelling: [preg-nuh nt]

IPA: /ˈprɛg nənt/

Pregnant is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 262 anagrams from letters in pregnant (aegnnprt).

Definitions for pregnant

adjective

1. having a child or other offspring developing in the body; with child or young, as a woman or female mammal.
2. fraught, filled, or abounding (usually followed by with):
3. teeming or fertile; rich (often followed by in):
4. full of meaning; highly significant:
5. of great importance or potential; momentous:
6. convincing; cogent:

Origin of pregnant

1375-1425; late Middle English Latin praegnant- (stem of praegnāns), variant of praegnās, equivalent to prae- pre- + *gnāt- (akin to ( g)nātus born, gignere to bring i

Examples for pregnant

It was a wild wintry scene, pregnant with cold and hardship.

And that Madame Gaudron was pregnant again; this was almost indecent at her age.

His tone was pregnant with alarm, though he strove to make it merely complaining.

A dark minivan quickly fills with pregnant women and those carrying infants.

The language of this bill is a de facto abortion ban for most pregnant federal prisoners.

Like the calm of the heavens when pregnant with thunder was the calm of that crowd.

Let us put our pride in our pockets for a moment and try to answer that pregnant question.

I was pregnant, uncomfortably so, for the first time and with twins, due the following March.

He beat me every day, even when I was seven months pregnant.

Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.