Pregnant vs Gestant - What's the difference?
pregnant | gestant |
(not comparable) Carrying developing offspring within the body.
(comparable) Having numerous possibilities or implications; full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.
* Shakespeare
Fertile, prolific (usually of soil, ground etc.).
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.vi:
(obsolete) Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt.
* Shakespeare
Bearing within; laden; burdened; pregnant.
* Elizabeth Browning
As adjectives the difference between pregnant and gestant
is that pregnant is carrying developing offspring within the body while gestant is bearing within; laden; burdened; pregnant.As a noun pregnant
is a pregnant woman.pregnant
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Alternative forms
* (archaic) * pregnaunt (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- I went to the doctor and, guess what, I'm pregnant !
- a pregnant pause
- wherein the pregnant enemy does much
- 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.
- Pregnant to good pity.
Synonyms
* expecting, expecting a baby, expectant, gravid (of animals only ), with child, fertilized * eating for two, having a bun in the oven, in a family way, knocked up, preggers, up the duff * in an interesting condition, in a family way * (having many possibilities or implications) meaningful, significant * See alsoHyponyms
* (carrying developing offspring) in troublegestant
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Clouds gestant with heat.