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What is the adjective for pregnant?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs impregnate, impregn and pregnate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

pregnant
  1. (chiefly not comparable) Carrying developing offspring within the body.
    1. Expecting a baby together.
  2. (comparable) Having numerous possibilities or implications; full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.
  3. (now poetic) Fertile, prolific (usually of soil, ground etc.).
  4. (obsolete) Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “Now she was pregnant, too young to be legally married, and some difficult decisions would have to be made.”
      “What is left unsaid, is communicated through glances, silences, and pregnant pauses.”
      “This muteness is unsettling, somehow pregnant with infinite meaning and utterly devoid of any at all.”
imprenable
  1. Obsolete form of impregnable.
impregnable
  1. Capable of being impregnated.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The key to the Belgian defence along the Albert Canal was the supposedly impregnable fortress of Eben-Emael.”
      “Why, when you have an impregnable lead in the Tour de France, do you make a 140-kilometer solo escape, and add another eight minutes to your margin?”
      “The Humboldt Glacier is probably the largest in the world, and it forms an impregnable barrier to Arctic explorations beyond it.”
impregnable
  1. (of a fortress, wall, etc., also used figuratively) Too strong to be penetrated.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The key to the Belgian defence along the Albert Canal was the supposedly impregnable fortress of Eben-Emael.”
      “Why, when you have an impregnable lead in the Tour de France, do you make a 140-kilometer solo escape, and add another eight minutes to your margin?”
      “The Humboldt Glacier is probably the largest in the world, and it forms an impregnable barrier to Arctic explorations beyond it.”
impregnatable
  1. Which can be impregnated.
preggy
  1. (slang) Pregnant (carrying a baby).
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “After a while we began to do her preggy exercises, those circles and figures of eight that she learnt at her ante-natal class.”
      “I yak about it here and also point you to a most astonishing photo of her preggy balloon-belly.”
prego
  1. Alternative spelling of preggo
pregnaunt
  1. Obsolete form of pregnant.
pregravid
  1. (medicine) Prior to pregnancy.
preggo
preggers
  1. (informal) Pregnant.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Sadly the are other reasons apart from financial why what are essentially children having children should not get preggers.”
      “So, I show up in my cutely cropped jeans and my light blue trendy tie-dyed preggers tunic all ready to get sauce all over my face.”
      “I think it's an interesting option, actually, and one I'd probably go for if I found myself unexpectedly preggers and that option was available to me.”
impregnated
impregnating
impregned
  1. simple past tense and past participle of impregn
impregning
  1. present participle of impregn
pregnated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of pregnate
pregnating
  1. present participle of pregnate
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