| 单词 | pregnant |
| 释义 | pregnant (once / 501 pages) adj If you are pregnant, you are carrying a developing baby in your body (and you are definitely a woman). Pregnant women take excellent care of their health — good for them and good for the baby. Pregnant comes from Latin, and literally means "before giving birth" — prae-, like pre- means "before" and gnasci is a root that means "be born." Pregnant can also mean "filled with something," like inspiration or "rich in significance or implication," like your pregnant pause before answering your friend's question, "You like my new boyfriend, don't you?" WORD FAMILYpregnant: nonpregnant, pregnancy, pregnantly+/pregnancy: pregnancies USAGE EXAMPLESYet we begin a year pregnant with perils with the Fear Index at exceptionally low levels. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) One woman arrived with her 9-month-old son; the other was several months pregnant. Seattle Times(Dec 31, 2016) The case involved a newly pregnant woman experiencing abdominal cramping and fever. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1adj carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life Syn|Ant big, enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, heavy, large, with child in an advanced stage of pregnancy nonpregnant not pregnant 2adj rich in significance or implication Syn meaning, significant meaningful having a meaning or purpose 3adj filled with or attended with a silence pregnant with suspense Syn fraught full containing as much or as many as is possible or normal |
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