English Dictionary

pregnant

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈpɹɛɡnənt/

形容詞

比較不可 比較可能 詩語 廃用

(chiefly not comparable) Carrying developing offspring within the body. / Of a couple: expecting a baby together.

日本語の意味

胎児を体内で育んでいる状態、すなわち妊娠していること。 / 夫婦においては、一緒に子供をもうけることを期待している状態。

The pregnant woman smiled as she prepared the tiny clothes for her baby.

妊娠中の女性は赤ちゃんの小さな服を用意しながら微笑んだ。

意味（1）

(chiefly not comparable) Carrying developing offspring within the body.

意味（2）

Of a couple: expecting a baby together.

We are pregnant.

意味（3）

(comparable) Having numerous possibilities or implications; full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.

a pregnant pause

意味（4）

(poetic) Fertile, prolific (usually of soil, ground, etc.).

The sunne-beames bright vpon her body playd, / Being through former bathing mollifide, / And pierst into her wombe, where they embayd / With so sweet sence and secret power vnspide, / That in her pregnant flesh they shortly fructifide.

意味（5）

(obsolete) Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt.

play at subtill games; faire vertues all; To which the Grecians are most prompt and pregnant

意味（6）

(obsolete) Ready-witted; clever; ingenious.

more pregnant （ comparative ）

most pregnant （ superlative ）