preg·nant 1 (pr g n nt)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 praegn  ns, praegnant-, variant of praegns; see gen- in Indo-European roots.]preg nant·ly adv. |
| preg·nant 2 (prgnnt) 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.] |
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