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- as in gone
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pregnant
adjective
Definition of pregnant
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as in gone
containing unborn young within the body
we only realized that our cat had been pregnant when she unexpectedly delivered three kittens
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gone
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expecting
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caught
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expectant
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with young
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conceiving
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with child
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gravid
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prenatal
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childbearing
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enceinte
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big
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gestational
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heavy
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impregnated
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parturient
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quick
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brooding
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
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nonpregnant
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infertile
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barren
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miscarrying
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aborting
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delivered
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nonpregnant
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infertile
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barren
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miscarrying
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aborting
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delivered
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as in meaning
clearly conveying a special meaning (as one’s mood)
a pregnant silence followed the ill-advised attempt at humor
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meaning
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suggestive
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revealing
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eloquent
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expressive
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revelatory
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reminiscent
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meaningful
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graphic
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significant
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vivid
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flavorful
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evocative
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pictorial
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rich
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redolent
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full—bodied
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graphical
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sententious
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weighty
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unexpressive
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unexpressive
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Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: swanger
- Amharic: ቅድሚያ
- Arabic: حامل
- Azerbaijani: hamilə
- Bashkir: бремен
- Belarusian: цяжарных
- Bulgarian: бременни
- Bengali: গর্ভবতী
- Bosnian: trudna
- Catalan: embarassades
- Cebuano: mabdos
- Czech: těhotná
- Welsh: yn feichiog
- Danish: gravid
- German: Schwanger
- Greek: έγκυος
- Esperanto: graveda
- Spanish: embarazada
- Estonian: rase
- Basque: haurdun
- Persian: حامله
- Finnish: raskaana
- French: enceinte
- Irish: ag iompar clainne
- Scottish Gaelic: trom
- Galician: embarazada
- Gujarati: ગર્ભવતી
- Hebrew: בהריון
- Hindi: गर्भवती
- Croatian: trudna
- Haitian: ansent
- Hungarian: terhes
- Armenian: հղի
- Indonesian: hamil
- Icelandic: barnshafandi
- Italian: incinta
- Japanese: 妊娠
- Javanese: ngandhut
- Georgian: ორსული
- Kazakh: жүкті
- Khmer: មានផ្ទៃពោះ
- Kannada: ಗರ್ಭಿಣಿ
- Korean: 임산
- Kyrgyz: кош бойлуу
- Latin: gravida
- Luxembourgish: Schwanger
- Lao: ຖືພາ
- Lithuanian: nėščia
- Latvian: grūtniecēm
- Malagasy: bevohoka
- Mari: мӱшкыран
- Maori: hapu
- Macedonian: бремена
- Malayalam: ഗർഭിണിയായ
- Mongolian: жирэмсэн
- Marathi: गर्भवती
- Hill Mari: мӹшкӹрӓн
- Malay: hamil
- Maltese: tqal
- Burmese: ကိုယ်ဝန်ဆောင်
- Nepali: गर्भवती
- Dutch: zwanger
- Norwegian: gravid
- Punjabi: ਗਰਭਵਤੀ
- Papiamento: estado
- Polish: w ciąży
- Portuguese: grávida
- Romanian: însărcinată
- Russian: беременных
- Sinhalese: ගැබිනි
- Slovak: tehotné
- Slovenian: nosečnice
- Albanian: shtatzënë
- Serbian: труднице
- Sundanese: reuneuh
- Swedish: gravida
- Swahili: mimba
- Tamil: கர்ப்பிணி
- Telugu: గర్భిణీ
- Tajik: занони ҳомила
- Thai: ตั้งท้อง
- Tagalog: buntis
- Turkish: hamile
- Tatar: йөкле
- Udmurt: секыт
- Ukrainian: вагітних
- Urdu: حاملہ
- Uzbek: homilador
- Vietnamese: có bầu
- Xhosa: pregnant
- Yiddish: שוואַנגער
- Chinese: 怀孕的
Synonyms, close and similar words for pregnant
- pregnant woman
- expectant
- fraught
- gravid
- enceinte
- 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
- rich
- charged
- cogent
- consequential
- creative
- eloquent
- expressive
- fecund
- imaginative
- important
- inventive
- loaded
- momentous
- original
- pointed
- redolent
- seminal
- sententious
- suggestive
- telling
- weighty
Roget’s 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
WORDS RELATED TO PREGNANT
- expectant
- expecting
- fertile
- fruitful
- gravid
- pregnant
- procreant
- procreative
- enceinte
- expecting
- gravid
- parturient
- pregnant
- with child
- alive
- allusive
- articulate
- artistic
- brilliant
- colorful
- demonstrative
- dramatic
- eloquent
- emphatic
- energetic
- forcible
- graphic
- indicative
- ingenious
- lively
- masterly
- meaningful
- mobile
- moving
- passionate
- pathetic
- pictorial
- picturesque
- poignant
- pointed
- pregnant
- representative
- responsive
- revelatory
- showy
- significant
- silver-tongued
- spirited
- stimulating
- stirring
- striking
- strong
- suggestive
- sympathetic
- tender
- thoughtful
- touching
- understanding
- vivid
- warm
- carrying a child
- expecting
- gravid
- pregnant
- with child
- breeding
- fertile
- fructiferous
- fruitful
- generating
- pregnant
- proliferant
- prolific
- propagating
- reproducing
- rich
- spawning
- teeming
- abundant
- arable
- bearing
- black
- bountiful
- breeding
- breedy
- bringing forth
- childbearing
- 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
Roget’s 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
What is another word for Pregnant?
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reproduction, expecting a baby
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filled, carrying developing offspring within the body
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filled, carrying developing offspring within the body
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filled, carrying developing offspring within the body
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filled, carrying developing offspring within the body
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with child, carrying developing offspring within the body
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Pronunciation:
[ pɹˈɛɡnənt], [ pɹˈɛɡnənt], [ p_ɹ_ˈɛ_ɡ_n_ə_n_t]
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adj.
• all (adjective)
- pregnant.
• carrying developing offspring within the body (adjective)
- abundant,
- Expecting,
- enceinte,
- in family way,
- fruitful,
- fecund,
- fraught,
- parturient,
- Anticipating,
- parous,
- gestating,
- replete,
- productive,
- gravid,
- hopeful,
- prolific.
• expressive (adjective)
- most revelatory,
- under-standing,
- more understanding,
- forcible,
- silver tongued,
- re-presentative,
- re presentative,
- more revelatory,
- under standing,
- silvertongued.
• fecund (adjective)
- more breeding,
- most spawning,
- more fructiferous,
- re-producing,
- more propagating,
- more generating,
- more proliferant,
- most fructiferous,
- most reproducing,
- most breeding,
- re producing,
- most propagating,
- most generating,
- more reproducing,
- more spawning,
- most proliferant.
• fertile (adjective)
- breediest,
- most feracious,
- loamier,
- most vegetative,
- flowing with milk honey,
- most childing,
- more procreant,
- most hebetic,
- most pubescent,
- more puberal,
- more pubescent,
- more uberous,
- most generative,
- more generative,
- more hebetic,
- Procreant,
- more vegetative,
- more bearing,
- more childing,
- most procreant,
- vegetative,
- loamiest,
- most uberous,
- hebetic,
- most bearing,
- breedier,
- most puberal,
- more feracious.
• heavy (adjective)
- lead-footed,
- zaftig,
- weighted,
- ponderous,
- two-ton.
• insinuating (adjective)
- in sinuating,
- in-sinuating.
• meaningful (adjective)
- weighty,
- re-levant,
- consequential,
- important,
- ex act,
- re levant,
- ex-act.
• Other relevant words: (adjective)
- giving an inkling,
- in a nutshell,
- pointed,
- flowing with milk and honey,
- loamy,
- fructiferous,
- with child,
- Childing,
- pubescent,
- remindful,
- meaningful,
- bringing forth,
- teeming,
- generative,
- expectant,
- laid on the line,
- Insinuating,
- breedy,
- Proliferous,
- calling a spade a spade,
- right-on,
- on the button,
- significant,
- fertile,
- Feracious,
- Uberous,
- proliferant,
- right to it,
- heavy,
- impressionistic,
- significative,
- revelatory,
- short-and-sweet,
- calling spade a spade,
- Puberal,
- evocatory.
• pointed (adjective)
- more right on,
- calling spade spade,
- laid line,
- more short and sweet,
- more short-and-sweet,
- righton,
- in nutshell,
- most righton,
- most right-on,
- more righton,
- laid the line,
- right it,
- calling a spade spade,
- laid on line,
- most short and sweet,
- boiled down,
- most short-and-sweet,
- more right-on,
- most right on,
- on button.
• pregnant (adjective)
- fertilized,
- breeding,
- impregnated.
• productive (adjective)
- creative,
- bountiful,
- lush,
- profitable,
- constructive,
- executive.
• significant (adjective)
- ex-pressing,
- most meaning,
- ex pressing,
- de noting,
- more meaning,
- more expressing,
- more denoting,
- de-noting,
- most expressing,
- most denoting.
• suggestive (adjective)
- more remindful,
- re-mindful,
- more evocatory,
- symptomatic,
- most remindful,
- most evocatory,
- more significative,
- giving inkling,
- re mindful,
- most significative.
• teeming (adjective)
- more crammed,
- most crammed,
- most swarming,
- more bristling,
- chockfull,
- most bristling,
- more thronged,
- more swarming,
- most thronged,
- thronged,
- over-flowing,
- chock full,
- more brimful,
- over flowing.
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n.
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- be expecting (a baby),
- in the family way,
- carry,
- have a bun in the oven,
- be with child,
- heavy with child,
- heavily pregnant.
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- representational,
- illocutionary,
- indicative,
- expressive,
- telling,
- symbolic,
- reproduction,
- gone,
- well-defined,
- unambiguous.
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•
- suggestive.
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- big.
• family way (noun)
- carrying child,
- family-way,
- pregnants,
- carrying a children,
- gravids,
- with children,
- expectings,
- carrying children.
• full (noun)
- full.
• great (noun)
- great.
• large (noun)
- large.
• Other relevant words: (noun)
- family way,
- carrying a child.
• pregnant (noun)
- in trouble.
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Other synonyms:
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- blooming,
- preggers.
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- trenchant.
• Other relevant words:
- animal.
• Other relevant words (noun):
- futurity,
- primal,
- pithy,
- contain,
- intelligible,
- bearing,
- Prescious,
- elementary,
- tell-tale,
- emphatic,
- comprehend,
- round,
- prime,
- abounding in,
- infantile,
- flourishing,
- quick,
- primeval,
- portentous,
- foundational,
- horizon,
- Fruit-bearing,
- concise,
- Visioned,
- monitory,
- opulent,
- forthcoming,
- connotative,
- expected,
- pivotal,
- discover,
- pristine,
- Auspicial,
- thriving,
- short,
- Frugiferous,
- natal,
- about to be,
- prenatal,
- mind,
- basal,
- the point,
- in store,
- eventful,
- close at hand,
- procreative,
- plump,
- invention,
- rudimentary,
- conceive,
- summary,
- ominous,
- good,
- primary,
- superfetate,
- Puerperous,
- laden,
- imminent,
- speaker system,
- realize,
- over hanging,
- inventive,
- inchoative,
- instant,
- meaty,
- filled,
- instinct,
- concept,
- premonitory,
- aboriginal,
- crisp,
- Transferred,
- compendium,
- image,
- in the bud,
- ideational,
- genial,
- shaping,
- produced,
- quaint,
- impulse,
- impending,
- idea,
- brewing,
- reproductive,
- contrive,
- ample,
- infuse,
- rich,
- embryonic,
- happen,
- extended,
- Augurial,
- conceptive,
- in a family way,
- introductory,
- Augural,
- original,
- forceful,
- come,
- luxuriant,
- fertilize,
- budding,
- initiative,
- loaded,
- drench,
- readable,
- generous,
- cogent,
- curt,
- laconic,
- puerperal,
- brimful,
- eloquent,
- intensional,
- nascent,
- substantial,
- extensional,
- imagination,
- understanding,
- appreciate,
- figurative,
- notion,
- in embryo,
- incipient,
- exuberant,
- beginning,
- basic,
- Preparing,
- carrying a fetus,
- postnatal,
- redolent,
- abecedarian,
- piquant,
- moving,
- plenteous,
- in its infancy,
- plenary,
- near,
- evocative,
- conceptual,
- epigrammatic,
- pregnancy,
- impression,
- denotative,
- Teemful,
- primordial,
- urge,
- allusive,
- productive of,
- apprehend,
- fill,
- referential,
- brief,
- provocative,
- creation,
- at hand,
- neat,
- germinal,
- destined,
- metaphorical,
- seminal,
- informative,
- abounding,
- climacteric,
- tanti,
- striking,
- consideration,
- alive,
- imaginative,
- Esemplastic,
- future,
- Significatory,
- succinct,
- catch,
- poignant,
- genetic,
- antenatal,
- momentous,
- radical,
- thought-provoking,
- emergent,
- exact,
- auspicious,
- incunabular,
- consider,
- symbolical,
- in reserve,
- bursting out,
- Primogenial,
- believe,
- associational,
- aptitude,
- emotional,
- critical,
- charged,
- superabundant,
- Extispicious,
- elliptical,
- decisive,
- brisk,
- fundamental,
- exigent,
- vivid,
- intuition,
- in prospect,
- big with child,
- instill,
- Facund,
- gestate,
- unborn,
- plentiful,
- autochthonous,
- central,
- oppressive,
- gestation,
- Inceptive,
- imagine,
- acoustic system,
- fat,
- wealthy,
- swarming,
- apprehension,
- fetal,
- Carrying,
- Rudimental,
- Augurous,
- formative,
- initial,
- compendious,
- open,
- imbue,
- notional,
- copious,
- originative,
- primitive,
- conception,
- definable,
- Protogenic,
- think,
- impregnate,
- coming,
- crucial,
- up the spout,
- flush,
- terse,
- condensed,
- QUICK WITH CHILD,
- inchoate,
- comprehension,
- Gestatory,
- initiatory,
- compact,
- denotational,
- Producing,
- connotational,
- bursting,
- inaugural,
- meaning,
- interpretable,
- on the cards,
- compressed,
- ingenious,
- ideative,
- view,
- infant,
- close,
- in ovo,
- allegorical,
- conceit,
- cogitate,
- genital,
- inspired,
- elemental,
- sententious.
How to use «Pregnant» in context?
There’s no doubt that pregnant women are in high demand. Countless couples around the world are eagerly looking forward to becoming parents, and the fertility services industry is doing its best to meet that need. As the world evolves and more couples are choosing to have children later in life, the medical industry is struggling to keep up by developing novel treatments and technologies to help pregnant women carry pregnancies to full term. Here are four fascinating facts about pregnant women:
1. A pregnant woman’s body undergoes dramatic changes.
Normally, a woman’s hormones cause her to grow bigger and stronger during her menstrual cycle.
Paraphrases for Pregnant:
Paraphrases are highlighted according to their relevancy:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
expectant, gravid.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
contraceptive, maternal, prenatal, child-bearing, pre-delivery.
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Verb, non-3rd person singular present
.expecting.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
pregnancy, pregnancy-related.
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Proper noun, singular
pregnancy, Pregnancies, cabinets.
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Noun, singular or mass
pregnancy.
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Adjective
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