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pregnantly

pregnantly

5.3
Showing that a woman is expecting a baby
  • adverb
  • /prɪˈɡnəntli/
translation icon : de manera embarazada
  • She smiled pregnantly as she announced that she was going to be a mother.

Examples

  • He glanced pregnantly at her growing belly, understanding the changes ahead.

  • The actress walked pregnantly across the stage, her character expecting a child.

  • She smiled pregnantly as she shared the news with her family.

  • She looked at him pregnantly.

  • The mother spoke pregnantly about her baby.

  • The actress moved pregnantly on stage, portraying a character with a child on the way.

  • He looked at her pregnantly as she cradled her baby bump, filled with unspoken joy.

Surface Forms

pregnantly positive

Morphology

pregnantly = pregnant (transparent) = pregnant + ly

Standard adverbial formation from the adjective 'pregnant' using the productive suffix '-ly', with a literal meaning related to pregnancy.

Etymology

Pregnantly comes from the same root as pregnant, from Latin praegnans, made of prae- 'before' and gignere 'to produce'. So pregnantly can mean 'in a way that shows pregnancy', for example when someone is carrying a baby.