pregnant
adj.adj. having a baby growing inside the body. It can also describe a moment or silence that feels full of meaning or importance.
adj. carrying developing offspring within the body; also used figuratively to describe a significant or meaningful pause or state of potentiality.
She is six months pregnant with her first child.
After the shocking announcement, a pregnant silence filled the room as everyone waited for a response.
The author uses pregnant metaphors to suggest a deeper political subtext that only becomes apparent upon a second reading of the novel.
From Middle English preignant, from Old French preignant, pregnant, also prenant (compare archaic Modern French prégnant), and their source, Latin praegnāns (“pregnant”), probably from prae- (“pre-”) + *gnāscī, an archaic form of nāscī (“to be born”). Displaced Old English bearnēacen (literally "child-enlarged").
Apparently from Middle French pregnant, preignant (“pressing, compelling”), present participle of prembre (“to press”), from Latin premere (“to press”).
When used figuratively to describe a silence or pause, it typically precedes the noun it modifies.
She is pregnant of a boyShe is pregnant with a boyThe adjective takes the preposition 'with' when specifying the child or the duration.