pregnantとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɛɡnənt/

語源 1

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-”) + gnascī (“to be born”). Displaced 古期英語 bearnēacen (字義どおりに "child-increased").

形容詞

pregnant (comparative more pregnant, superlative most pregnant)

1. (chiefly not comparable) Carrying developing offspring within the body.

   I went to the doctor and, guess what, I’m pregnant!

   1. Of a couple: expecting a baby together.

      We are pregnant.

2. (comparable) Having numerous possibilities or implications; full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.

   a pregnant pause

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     wherein the pregnant enemy does much

   • 2019 January 26, Kitty Empire [pseudonym], “The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, ISSN 0261-3077, OCLC 229952407, archived from the original on 8 April 2019:

     The many tear-jerkers deal with finality, with death and the end of love, with a stoicism pregnant with feeling.

3. (poetic) Fertile, prolific (usually of soil, ground, etc.).
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vi:

     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.

4. (obsolete) Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt.
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     pregnant to good pity

5. (obsolete) Ready-witted; clever; ingenious.

同意語

• (carrying offspring (standard)): expecting, expecting a baby, expectant, gravid (of animals only), with child, fertilized
• (carrying offspring (colloquial/slang)): eating for two, having a bun in the oven, in a family way, knocked up, preggers, up the duff, up the spout
• (carrying offspring (euphemistic)): in an interesting condition, in a family way
• (having many possibilities または implications): meaningful, significant
• See also Thesaurus:pregnant

下位語

• (carrying developing offspring): in trouble

派生語

名詞

pregnant (複数形 pregnants)

1. A pregnant person.

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語源 2

Apparently from Middle French pregnant, preignant (“pressing, compelling”), present participle of prembre (“to press”), from Latin premere (“to press”).

形容詞

pregnant (comparative more pregnant, superlative most pregnant)

1. (now まれに) Compelling; clear, evident. [from 14th c.]
   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, I.18:

     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.