Pregnantly

preg·nant ¹  (prgnnt)

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.

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[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin praegnns, praegnant-, variant of praegns; see gen- in Indo-European roots.]

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pregnant·ly adv.

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preg·nant ²  (prgnnt)

adj. Archaic

Convincing; cogent. Used of an argument or a proof.

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[Middle English, probably from Old French preignant, present participle of prembre, to press, from Latin premere; see per-⁴ in Indo-European roots.]