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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
pregnant
    adj 1: carrying developing offspring within the body or being
           about to produce new life [ant: nonpregnant]
    2: rich in significance or implication; "a meaning look" [syn:
       meaning(a), pregnant, significant]
    3: filled with or attended with; "words fraught with meaning";
       "an incident fraught with danger"; "a silence pregnant with
       suspense" [syn: fraught(p), pregnant]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pregnant \Preg"nant\, a. [F. prenant taking. Cf. Pregnable.]
   Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open;
   prompt. [Obs.] " Pregnant to good pity." --Shak.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pregnant \Preg"nant\, a. [L. praegnans, -antis; prae before +
   genere, gignere, to beget: cf. F. pr['e]gnant. See Gender,
   2d Kin.]
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   1. Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great
      with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring
      forth.
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   2. Heavy with important contents, significance, or issue;
      full of consequence or results; weighty; as, pregnant
      replies. " A pregnant argument." --Prynne. " A pregnant
      brevity." --E. Everett.
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   3. Full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.;
      as, a pregnant youth. [Obs.] --Evelyn.
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            Wherein the pregnant enemy does much. --Shak.
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   Pregnant construction (Rhet.), one in which more is implied
      than is said; as, the beasts trembled forth from their
      dens, that is, came forth trembling with fright.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pregnant \Preg"nant\, n.
   A pregnant woman. [R.] --Dunglison.
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5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
PREGNANT, pleading. A fulness in the pleadings which admits or involves a 
matter which is favorable to the opposite party. 2. It is either an 
affirmative pregnant, or negative pregnant. See Affirmative pregnant; 
Negative pregnant. 



Thesaurus Results for pregnant:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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