From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pregnant
adj 1: carrying developing offspring within the body or being
about to produce new life [ant: nonpregnant]
2: rich in significance or implication; "a meaning look" [syn:
{meaning(a)}, pregnant, significant]
3: filled with or attended with; "words fraught with meaning";
"an incident fraught with danger"; "a silence pregnant with
suspense" [syn: {fraught(p)}, pregnant]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Pregnant \Preg"nant\, n.
A pregnant woman. [R.] --Dunglison.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Pregnant \Preg"nant\, a. [F. prenant taking. Cf. Pregnable.]
Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open;
prompt. [Obs.] " Pregnant to good pity." --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Pregnant \Preg"nant\, a. [L. praegnans, -antis; prae before +
genere, gignere, to beget: cf. F. pr['e]gnant. See Gender,
2d Kin.]
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1. Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great
with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring
forth.
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2. Heavy with important contents, significance, or issue;
full of consequence or results; weighty; as, pregnant
replies. " A pregnant argument." --Prynne. " A pregnant
brevity." --E. Everett.
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3. Full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.;
as, a pregnant youth. [Obs.] --Evelyn.
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Wherein the pregnant enemy does much. --Shak.
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Pregnant construction (Rhet.), one in which more is implied
than is said; as, the beasts trembled forth from their
dens, that is, came forth trembling with fright.
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