adjective

• 1(of a woman or female animal) having a child or young developing in the uterus.

  ‘she was heavily pregnant with her second child’

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  • ‘she was six months pregnant’
  • ‘a pregnant woman’
  • ‘The practice of screening all pregnant women for syphilis in every pregnancy should continue.’
  • ‘In the United Kingdom over a quarter of pregnant women who smoke continue to do so during pregnancy.’
  • ‘Back at the centre there is a call from a young pregnant woman requiring telephone advice.’
  • ‘Boys are immunised, too, so that they won't be a source of infection to non-immune pregnant women.’
  • ‘A pregnant woman can transmit the infection to her baby during delivery.’
  • ‘Anti-inflammatory drugs are among the commonest drugs prescribed to pregnant women.’
  • ‘Now she was pregnant, too young to be legally married, and some difficult decisions would have to be made.’
  • ‘Midwives and pregnant women said that they found the booklets used in the intervention acceptable.’
  • ‘My wife and I were overjoyed when we did a pregnancy test confirming she was pregnant with our second child.’
  • ‘My problem now is that my youngest daughter is pregnant and she and her partner are getting married next year.’
  • ‘Free fruit through a supermarket voucher scheme is also planned for pregnant women and for preschool children.’
  • ‘Quinine alone is recommended now only for pregnant women, for whom no satisfactory alternatives exist.’
  • ‘The Department of Health advises pregnant women, to eat according to their appetite and to keep an eye on weight gain.’
  • ‘All pregnant women, whatever their age, should be offered screening before 20 weeks.’
  • ‘The occurrence of pruritus in pregnant women should be the subject of routine inquiry, and when present acted on.’

  Synonyms

  expecting a baby, having a baby, with a baby on the way, having a child, expectant, carrying a child

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• 2Full of meaning; significant or suggestive.

  ‘a pregnant pause’

  More example sentences

  • ‘a development pregnant with implications’
  • ‘This muteness is unsettling, somehow pregnant with infinite meaning and utterly devoid of any at all.’
  • ‘The direction perks up in the second half but overall allows too many pregnant pauses by the actors.’
  • ‘Fortunately, Shane comes to the rescue with a well timed pregnant pause - or is he asleep?’
  • ‘There was the most pregnant of pauses as the camera panned along the faces in the panel.’
  • ‘There was a pregnant pause, then Caitlin sighed sadly, reaching out to trace a finger over the figure on the screen.’
  • ‘What is left unsaid, is communicated through glances, silences and pregnant pauses.’
  • ‘There was a pregnant pause, and he continued, voice a little shaky.’

  Synonyms

  filled, charged, heavy, fraught, replete, teeming

  meaningful, significant, eloquent

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