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pregnant

[preg-nuhnt] / ˈprɛg nənt /
ADJECTIVE
carrying developing offspring within the body
Synonyms
WEAK
abundant anticipating carrying a child childbearing enceinte expectant expecting fecund fertile fraught fruitful gestating gravid heavy hopeful in family way parous parturient preggers productive prolific replete teeming with child
ADJECTIVE
significant, meaningful
Synonyms
STRONGEST
rich
WEAK
charged cogent consequential creative eloquent expressive fecund imaginative important inventive loaded momentous original pointed redolent seminal sententious suggestive telling weighty
Antonyms
WEAK
insignificant trivial unmeaningful

Example Sentences

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The couple were informed by police in 2024, when Beverley was seven months pregnant, that Sunny's remains were believed to have been found at Legacy's site.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Leavitt, who is pregnant, is set to take leave beginning in May.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2026

It’s acutely harmful to pregnant women, infants and children.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026

The programme, which feeds an estimated 60 million children and pregnant and breastfeeding women at a cost of nearly a tenth of the annual budget, is President Prabowo Subianto's signature project.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

Team members placed a pregnant female panda in a semi-wild enclosure about one acre in size—with natural vegetation and a den where the soon-to-be mother could give birth.

From "Camp Panda" by Catherine Thimmesh

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.