Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - pregnant

~ adj 1 having an unborn baby growing inside your body  (On the same day I started the job I found out I was pregnant. | twenty weeks/three months etc pregnant)  (She went skiing when she was 7 months pregnant! | get pregnant)  (It came as a shock - I thought I was too old to get pregnant. | get sb pregnant (=make a woman pregnant by having sex with her))  (I didn't mean to get her pregnant. | fall pregnant old-fashioned (=become pregnant) | heavily pregnant (=having a baby inside your body that is almost ready to be born)) 2 a pregnant pause/silence a pause or silence which is full of meaning or emotion, even though no one says anything  (Dave's outburst was followed by a pregnant pause.) 3 pregnant with formal containing a lot of a quality or feeling  (Every phrase in this poem is pregnant with meaning.)