pregnant

Từ điển American Heritage Dictionary 4th

I. preg·nant¹ (prĕgʹnənt)adj.
1. Carrying developing offspring within the body.
2.
a. Weighty or significant; full of meaning:
a conversation occasionally punctuated by pregnant pauses.
b. Of great or potentially great import, implication, or moment: “It was a politically pregnant time in Poland” (New York).
3. Filled or fraught; replete: “This was, from the Party's point of view, both deplorable in itself and pregnant with danger for the future” (Robert Conquest).
4. Having a profusion of ideas; creative or inventive.
5. Producing results; fruitful:
a pregnant decision. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin praegnāns, praegnant-, variant of praegnās. See genə- in Indo-European Roots.] pregʹnant·ly adv. II. preg·nant² (prĕgʹnənt)adj. Archaic
Convincing; cogent. Used of an argument or a proof. [Middle English, probably from Old French preignant, present participle of prembre, to press, from Latin premere. See per-⁴ in Indo-European Roots.]

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  fraught(p), meaning(a), significant