different between replete vs pregnant

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French replet, from Latin repletus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???pli?t/
• Rhymes: -i?t

Adjective

replete (comparative more replete, superlative most replete)

1. Abounding.
   • 1730, Jonathan Swift, "The Pheasant and the Lark":

     A peacock reign'd, whose glorious sway

     His subjects with delight obey:

     His tail was beauteous to behold,

     Replete with goodly eyes and gold.

   • 1759, Samuel Johnson, Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, ch. 12:

     I am less unhappy than the rest, because I have a mind replete with images.

   • 1843, Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, ch. 44:

     "Salisbury Cathedral, my dear Jonas, . . . is an edifice replete with venerable associations."

   • 1916, Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys: Volume 8—Great Philosophers, "Seneca":

     History is replete with instances of great men ruled by their barbers.

2. Gorged, filled to near the point of bursting, especially with food or drink.
   • 1901, Bret Harte, "Three Vagabonds of Trinidad" in Under the Redwoods:

     And what an afternoon! To lie, after this feast, on their bellies in the grass, replete like animals . . . .

   • 1913, Jack London, The Valley of the Moon, ch. 15:

     In the evening, replete with deer meat, resting on his elbow and smoking his after-supper cigarette, he said . . . .

Synonyms

• (abounding): plentiful, abundant
• (gorged): stuffed

Related terms

• repletion
• complete

Translations

Noun

replete (plural repletes)

1. A honeypot ant.

Verb

replete (third-person singular simple present repletes, present participle repleting, simple past and past participle repleted)

1. (transitive) To fill to repletion, or restore something that has been depleted.

Anagrams

• peterel

Latin

Verb

repl?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of reple?

Spanish

Verb

replete

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of repletar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of repletar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of repletar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of repletar.

English

Alternative forms

• prægnant (obsolete)
• pregnaunt (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p???n?nt/

Etymology 1

From Middle English preignant, from Old French preignant, pregnant, also prenant (compare archaic Modern French prégnant), and their source, Latin praegn?ns (“pregnant”), probably from prae- (“pre-”) + gnasc? (“to be born”). Displaced Old English bearn?acen (literally "child-increased").

Adjective

pregnant (comparative more pregnant, superlative most pregnant)

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

2. (comparable) Having numerous possibilities or implications; full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.
3. (poetic) Fertile, prolific (usually of soil, ground, etc.).
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vi:

     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.

4. (obsolete) Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt.
5. (obsolete) Ready-witted; clever; ingenious.

Synonyms

• (carrying offspring (standard)): expecting, expecting a baby, expectant, gravid (of animals only), with child, fertilized
• (carrying offspring (colloquial/slang)): eating for two, having a bun in the oven, in a family way, knocked up, preggers, up the duff, up the spout
• (carrying offspring (euphemistic)): in an interesting condition, in a family way
• (having many possibilities or implications): meaningful, significant
• See also Thesaurus:pregnant

Hyponyms

• (carrying developing offspring): in trouble

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

pregnant (plural pregnants)

1. A pregnant person.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dunglison to this entry?)

Etymology 2

Apparently from Middle French pregnant, preignant (“pressing, compelling”), present participle of prembre (“to press”), from Latin premere (“to press”).

Adjective

pregnant (comparative more pregnant, superlative most pregnant)

1. (now rare) Compelling; clear, evident. [from 14th c.]
   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, I.18:

     Peregrine was in a little time a distinguished character, not only for his acuteness of apprehension, but also for that mischievous fertility of fancy, of which we have already given such pregnant examples.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French pregnant, from Old French pregnant, from Latin praegn?ns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pr?x?n?nt/
• Hyphenation: preg?nant
• Rhymes: -?nt

Adjective

pregnant (comparative pregnanter, superlative pregnantst)

1. poignant, incisive
2. meaningful, polysemic
3. (obsolete) important

Inflection

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German prägnant and French prégnant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pre??nant/

Adjective

pregnant m or n (feminine singular pregnant?, masculine plural pregnan?i, feminine and neuter plural pregnante)

1. pregnant (having many possibilities or implications)

Declension