pregnant
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- adjective
- /ˈprɛɡnənt/
- Literature
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significativo
- Her words were pregnant with meaning, leaving us all deep in thought.
- pregnant with possibility
- pregnant with meaning
Years that were full of hope and pregnant with opportunities.
- Years that were full of hope and pregnant with opportunities.
- And so this is a very pregnant idea, you could say, right?
- The cemetery is pregnant with unused success.
- And it's very, very hard not to read SLA Dime without sensing that those words are pregnant with meaning.
- You know, if you don't do that, it's like we are, when we have an idea, we are like pregnant with that idea.
- They're I am also guilty of when everyone was saying Tricia Paytas was pregnant with the reincarnated queen.
- Catastrophic carrier pregnant with a God.
Examples
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If they had not been sound, it would not have been so pregnant with meaning.
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As in a dream, the dissonance seemed pregnant, significant; the sum effect was vaguely menacing.
Fiction book (2000) -
Years that were full of hope and pregnant with opportunities.
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And so this is a very pregnant idea, you could say, right?
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You might even say it's pregnant with possibilities.
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In fact, from its inception, it has been pregnant with meaning.
Academic text (2018) -
Oh, now theology should bring us to live into that silence, into that pregnant pause.
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And it's very, very hard not to read SLA Dime without sensing that those words are pregnant with meaning.
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And here he's going to give us a very pregnant metaphor that he's going to follow up on a little bit later.
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Although initially purely descriptive, the phrase becomes pregnant with meaning as the novel progresses.
Academic text (2000)
Synonyms
69
4.9
Having a hidden meaning often shown by a look or pause
Idioms
Compounds
- Jargon
2
9.9
A small paper piece on a ballot pushed in but still attached at all four corners
How Meaningful
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pregnant also came to mean 'full' of meaning or feeling, because being 'carrying' something inside makes you 'full' of it. That's why a silence or look can be pregnant when it is rich with unspoken 'meaning'.