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pregnant

adj
/ˈpɹɛɡnənt/

Etymology

From Middle English preignant, from Old French preignant, pregnant, also prenant (compare archaic Modern French prégnant), and their source, Latin praegnāns (“pregnant”), probably from prae- (“pre-”) + *gnāscī, an archaic form of nāscī (“to be born”). Displaced Old English bearnēacen (literally "child-enlarged").

  1. derived from praegnāns
  2. derived from preignant
  3. inherited from preignant

Definitions

  1. Carrying developing offspring within the body.

    • I went to the doctor and, guess what, I’m five weeks pregnant!
    • I became pregnant in July 2014.
    • Once upon a time, not so long ago, women got pregnant and spent nine months in suspense before finding out if they were having a boy or a girl. But today? That waiting game is completely outdated, even quaint.

  2. Meaningful, having numerous possibilities or implications

    Meaningful, having numerous possibilities or implications; full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.

    • a pregnant pause
    • wherein the pregnant enemy does much
    • The many tear-jerkers deal with finality, with death and the end of love, with a stoicism pregnant with feeling.

  3. Fecund, fertile, prolific (usually of soil, ground, etc.).

    • The sunne-beames bright vpon her body playd, / Being through former bathing mollifide, / And pierst into her wombe, where they embayd / With so sweet sence and secret power vnspide, / That in her pregnant flesh they shortly fructifide.
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. Pervaded by something, usually sth intangible.

      • The operations center was pregnant with anxiety.

    2. Affording entrance

      Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt.

      • play at subtill games; faire vertues all; To which the Grecians are most prompt and pregnant

    3. Ready-witted

      Ready-witted; clever; ingenious.

    4. A pregnant person.

      • The Entbundenen, or those already delivered, are separate from those pregnants awaiting their accouchement

    5. Compelling

      Compelling; clear, evident.

      • Peregrine was in a little time a distinguished character, not only for his acuteness of apprehension, but also for that mischievous fertility of fancy, of which we have already given such pregnant examples.

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at pregnant. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at pregnant. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at pregnant

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA