PREGNANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pregnant mean? 

• PREGNANT (adjective)
  The adjective PREGNANT has 3 senses:

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

2. rich in significance or implication

3. filled with or attended with

  Familiarity information: PREGNANT used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREGNANT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Similar:

big; enceinte; expectant; gravid; great; heavy; large; with child (in an advanced stage of pregnancy)

Antonym:

nonpregnant (not pregnant)

Derivation:

pregnancy (the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Rich in significance or implication

Synonyms:

meaning; pregnant; significant

Context example:

a significant silence

Similar:

meaningful (having a meaning or purpose)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Filled with or attended with

Synonyms:

fraught; pregnant

Context example:

a silence pregnant with suspense

Similar:

full (containing as much or as many as is possible or normal)

 Context examples 

If you already have diabetes before you get pregnant, you need to monitor and control your blood sugar levels during pregnancy.

(Diabetes and Pregnancy, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

It is the place where a baby grows when a woman is pregnant.

(Ectopic Pregnancy, Dept. of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health)

Endometriosis is a problem affecting a woman's uterus - the place where a baby grows when she's pregnant.

(Endometriosis, NIH)

In the UK, more than a half of all women of reproductive age and almost a third of pregnant women are overweight or obese.

(Exercise in pregnancy improves health of obese mothers by restoring their tissues, University of Cambridge)

Alcohol can disrupt fetal development at any stage during pregnancy, even the earliest stages before a woman knows she is pregnant.

(Using both marijuana and alcohol during early pregnancy may increase the likelihood of disrupting fetal development, National Institutes of Health)

The choice of treatment depends on the size of the tumor, whether the cancer has spread and whether you would like to become pregnant someday.

(Cervical Cancer, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

To avoid extra calories, many pregnant women replace sugar-sweetened soft drinks and juices with beverages containing artificial sweeteners.

(Drinking diet beverages during pregnancy linked to child obesity, NIH)

Some people should not drink at all, including alcoholics, children, pregnant women, people on certain medicines and people with some medical conditions.

(Alcohol, NIH: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism)

Adults, babies, teenagers, pregnant women, and those with weak immune systems tend to get sicker from it.

(Chickenpox, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

If a woman gets CMV when she is pregnant, she can pass it on to her baby.

(Cytomegalovirus Infections, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)