pregnant

1. 1.

   carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life

   Antonymsnonpregnant

   Similarbig
2. 2.

   rich in significance or implication

   “a meaning look”

   “a significant silence”

   Synonymsmeaningsignificant

   Similarmeaningful
3. 3.

   filled with or attended with

   “words fraught with meaning”

   “an incident fraught with danger”

   “a silence pregnant with suspense”

   Synonymsfraught

   Similarfull

Other forms of pregnant

comparative

pregnanter·

superlative

pregnantest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pregnant

What does pregnant mean?

pregnant means "carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pregnant?

pregnant has 2 syllables: preg-nant. The stress falls on "preg". In IPA it is /ˈpɹɛɡnənt/.

What is another word for pregnant?

Close synonyms include meaning, significant, fraught. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of pregnant?

The recorded antonyms are nonpregnant.

Is pregnant a common word?

pregnant is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.