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Antonyms for pregnant

Grammar : Adj
Spell : preg-nuh nt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈprɛg nənt

Definition of pregnant

Origin :
  • "convincing, weighty, pithy," late 14c., "cogent, convincing, compelling" (of evidence, an argument, etc.); sense of "full of meaning" is from c.1400. According to OED from Old French preignant, present participle of preindre "press, squeeze, stamp, crush," from earlier priembre, from Latin premere "to press" (see press (v.1)). But Watkins has it from Latin praehendere "to grasp, seize," and in Barnhart it is from Latin praegnans "with child," literally "before birth" and thus identical with pregnant (adj.1).
  • adj carrying developing offspring within the body
  • adj significant, meaningful
Example sentences :
  • His tone was pregnant with alarm, though he strove to make it merely complaining.
  • Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
  • And that Madame Gaudron was pregnant again; this was almost indecent at her age.
  • Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola
  • Like the calm of the heavens when pregnant with thunder was the calm of that crowd.
  • Extract from : « The Suitors of Yvonne » by Raphael Sabatini
  • Let us put our pride in our pockets for a moment and try to answer that pregnant question.
  • Extract from : « The Missionary » by George Griffith
  • It was a wild wintry scene, pregnant with cold and hardship.
  • Extract from : « Submarine Warfare of To-day » by Charles W. Domville-Fife
  • All the instants that came after were to be pregnant with purpose and intolerable with perplexity.
  • Extract from : « End of the Tether » by Joseph Conrad
  • Its taking is pregnant with wide changes in the pathway of future civilization.
  • Extract from : « The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV » by Various
  • Mrs. Travers had never been looked at before with that strange and pregnant abstraction.
  • Extract from : « The Rescue » by Joseph Conrad
  • The fact, to him so pregnant of woeful possibilities, meant little to Bettina.
  • Extract from : « Glory of Youth » by Temple Bailey
  • In fact, all history is pregnant with traces of the Negro element.
  • Extract from : « Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence » by Various

Synonyms for pregnant

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