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Pregnant vs Impregnation - What's the difference?

pregnant | impregnation |

As nouns the difference between pregnant and impregnation

is that pregnant is a pregnant woman while impregnation is the act of making pregnant; fertilization.

As an adjective pregnant

is carrying developing offspring within the body.

pregnant

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic) * pregnaunt (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (not comparable) Carrying developing offspring within the body.
    • I went to the doctor and, guess what, I'm pregnant !
  • (comparable) Having numerous possibilities or implications; full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.
    • a pregnant pause
  • * Shakespeare
    • wherein the pregnant enemy does much
  • 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.
  • (obsolete) Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt.
  • * Shakespeare
    • 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 also

    Hyponyms

    * (carrying developing offspring) in trouble

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A pregnant woman.
    • (Dunglison)
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    impregnation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of making pregnant; fertilization.
  • The fact or process of imbuing or saturating with something; diffusion of some element, idea etc. through a medium or substance.
  • That with which anything is impregnated.
  • (geology) An ore deposit, with indefinite boundaries, consisting of rock impregnated with ore.