pregnant

US /ˈprɛɡnənt/

UK /ˈpregnənt/

B1

adjective

  • Carrying your unborn baby inside you
  • Carrying developing offspring within the body; gravid.
  • Inventive; fertile in resources.
  • Having a baby or babies developing inside the womb.
  • Full of meaning or significance; fraught.
  • Full of meaning or significance.
  • Full of meaning or significance; suggestive.
  • Being in a state of gestation.
  • Having conceived; having a developing embryo or fetus in the uterus.
  • (Archaic) Inventive; ready; quick.
  • Filled or abounding with something.

Examples

He got her pregnant.

She was pregnant by a former client.