Synonyms for pregnant
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Carrying offspring
expectant, gravid, big, enceinte, expecting, gone, heavy dated, full dated, great dated, gurt UK
2. Significant — meaningful, having numerous possibilities or implications; full of promise; abounding in ability, resources…
3. Preggers
preggers informal, knocked up vulgar slang US
4. Fertile
fertile, fruitful, loaded, productive, creative, teeming, prolific, replete, generative, fraught dated
Other
sententious, pithy, up the kyte slang UK
Definitions
- adj. 1
Meaningful, having numerous possibilities or implications; full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.
- adj. 2
Carrying developing offspring within the body.
I became pregnant in July 2014.
- adj. 3
Carrying developing offspring within the body. Of a couple: expecting a baby together.
- adj. 4
Fecund, fertile, prolific (usually of soil, ground, etc.).
Related words
Example sentences
- expecting We weren't expecting that he would call to see us.
- expectant In Finland, expectant mothers are given a baby box by the state.
- fertile Farmers planted crops on the fertile adret slopes.
By length
- 3 letters
- big1
- 4 letters
- full1, gone1, gurt
- 5 letters
- great1, heavy2, pithy2
- 6 letters
- loaded2, gravid
- 7 letters
- meaning2, fertile2, fraught1, weighty2, teeming2, replete2
- 8 letters
- creative3, prolific3, fruitful2, preggers, enceinte
- 9 letters
- expecting3, expectant3
- 10 letters
- productive3, meaningful3, generative4
- 11 letters
- significant4, sententious
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (heavy2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- enceint
- Italiano
- incinta
- Deutsch
- schwanger
- Català
- embarassada