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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | preparing to give birth |
| Synonyms: | enceinte, expecting, gravid, parturient, pregnant, with child |
| Main Entry: | fertile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ready to bear, produce |
| Synonyms: | abundant, arable, bearing, black, bountiful, breeding, breedy, bringing forth, childing, fecund, feracious, flowering, flowing with milk and honey, fruitful, generative, gravid, hebetic, loamy, lush, luxuriant, plenteous, plentiful, pregnant, procreant, producing, productive, proliferant, prolific, puberal, pubescent, rank, rich, spawning, teeming, uberous, vegetative, virile, with child, yielding |
| Antonyms: | barren, fruitless, impotent, infertile, sterile, unproductive, useless |
| Main Entry: | pregnant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | carrying developing offspring within the body |
| Synonyms: | abundant, anticipating, carrying a child, enceinte, expectant, expecting, fecund, fertile, fraught, fruitful, gestating, gravid, heavy, hopeful, in family way, parous, parturient, preggers, productive, prolific, replete, teeming, with child |
| Main Entry: | impregnated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pregnant |
| Synonyms: | bred, with child |
| Main Entry: | in the family way |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pregnant |
| Synonyms: | anticipating, carrying, expecting, gestating, heavy with child, knocked-up, with child |
| Main Entry: | parturient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pregnant |
| Synonyms: | abundant, anticipating, big*, carrying a child, enceinte, expectant, expecting, fecund, fertile, fraught, fruitful, gestating, gravid, heavy*, hopeful, in a family way, in family way, parous, preggers, productive, prolific, replete, teeming, with child |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | proliferous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fertile |
| Synonyms: | abundant, arable, bearing, black, bountiful, breeding, breedy, bringing forth, childing, fecund, feracious, flowering, flowing with milk and honey, fruitful, generative, gravid, hebetic, loamy, lush, luxuriant, plenteous, plentiful, pregnant, procreant, producing, productive, proliferant, prolific, puberal, pubescent, rank*, rich, spawning, teeming, uberous, vegetative, virile, with child, yielding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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