pregnant Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life
  2. adjective satellite rich in significance or implication
    meaning; significant.
    • a meaning look
  3. adjective satellite filled with or attended with
    fraught.
    • words fraught with meaning
    • an incident fraught with danger
    • a silence pregnant with suspense

WordNet

Preg"nant adjective
Etymology
L. praegnans, -antis; prae before + genere, gignere, to beget: cf. F. prégnant. See Gender, 2d Kin.
Definitions
  1. Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth.
  2. Heavy with important contents, significance, or issue; full of consequence or results; weighty; as, pregnant replies. " A pregnant argument." Prynne. " A pregnant brevity." pregnant silence E. Everett.
  3. Full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.; as, a pregnant youth. Obs. Evelyn.
    Wherein the pregnant enemy does much. Shak.
Preg"nant noun
Definitions
  1. A pregnant woman. R. Dunglison.
Preg"nant adjective
Etymology
F. prenant taking. Cf. Pregnable.
Definitions
  1. Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt. Obs. " Pregnant to good pity." Shak.

Webster 1913