Carrying developing offspring within the body.
I went to the doctor and, guess what, I’m five weeks pregnant!
Meaningful, having numerous possibilities or implications; full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.
a pregnant pause
Compelling; clear, evident.
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.
A pregnant person.
The Entbundenen, or those already delivered, are separate from those pregnants awaiting their accouchement
From Middle English preignant, from Old French preignant, pregnant, also prenant (compare archaic Modern French prégnant), and their source, Latin praegnāns (“pregnant”), probably from prae- (“pre-”) ...
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