pregnantとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English preignant, from Old French preignant, pregnant, also prenant (compare archaic Modern French prégnant), partly from Old French preindre, priembre (“to press”), from Latin premere (“to press”), and partly from Classical Latin praegnans, variant of praegnas, probably from prae- (“pre-”) + gnascī (“to be born”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɛɡnənt/

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

   • 2019 January 26, Kitty Empire, “The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

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

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     wherein the pregnant enemy does much

3. (now 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.
6. (obsolete) Clear; evident.

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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