pregnant
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Is pregnant a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of pregnant?
Definition
adj (English)
1. (chiefly not comparable) Carrying developing offspring within the body.Examples: "I went to the doctor and, guess what, I’m five weeks pregnant!"; "I became pregnant in July 2014."; "Once upon a time, not so long ago, women got pregnant and spent nine months in suspense before finding out if they were having a boy or a girl. But today? That waiting game is completely outdated, even quaint."
2. (chiefly not comparable) Carrying developing offspring within the body.Examples: "We are pregnant."
3. (comparable) Meaningful, having numerous possibilities or implications; full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.Examples: "a pregnant pause"; "wherein the pregnant enemy does much"; "The many tear-jerkers deal with finality, with death and the end of love, with a stoicism pregnant with feeling."Synonyms: meaningful, significant
4. (poetic) Fecund, fertile, prolific (usually of soil, ground, etc.).Examples: "The sunne-beames bright vpon her body playd, / Being through former bathing mollifide, / And pierst into her wombe, where they embayd / With so sweet sence and secret power vnspide, / That in her pregnant flesh they shortly fructifide."
5. (obsolete) Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt.Examples: "play at subtill games; faire vertues all; To which the Grecians are most prompt and pregnant"
6. (obsolete) Ready-witted; clever; ingenious.
adj (English)
1. (now rare) Compelling; clear, evident.Examples: "Peregrine was in a little time a distinguished character, not only for his acuteness of apprehension, but also for that mischievous fertility of fancy, of which we have already given such pregnant examples."Synonyms: eating for two, expectant, expecting, fertilized, gravid, knocked up, preggers, up the duff
Definition source: Wiktionary