pregnant
adjective
- having (an) offspring developing in the uterus; that has conceived; with young or with child
- mentally fertile; prolific of ideas; inventive
- productive of results; fruitful: a pregnant cause
- full of meaning, significance, etc.: a pregnant silence
- filled (with); abounding
See pregnant in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(prĕgˈnənt)
adjective- Carrying developing offspring within the body.
a. Weighty or significant; full of meaning: a conversation occasionally punctuated by pregnant pauses.
b. Of great or potentially great import, implication, or moment: “It was a politically pregnant time in Poland” (New York).
- Filled or fraught; replete: “This was, from the Party's point of view, both deplorable in itself and pregnant with danger for the future” (Robert Conquest).
- Having a profusion of ideas; creative or inventive.
- Producing results; fruitful: a pregnant decision.
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(prĕgˈnənt)
adjective Archaic Convincing; cogent. Used of an argument or a proof.
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