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Pregnant vs Regnant - What's the difference?

pregnant | regnant |

As adjectives the difference between pregnant and regnant

is that pregnant is (not comparable) carrying developing offspring within the body while regnant is ruling (that rules).

As a noun pregnant

is a pregnant woman.

As a verb regnant is

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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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    regnant

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Reigning, ruling; currently holding power.
  • * 1910 , A. M. Fairbairn, Studies in Religion and Theology , page 99
    • The people are now the State, their will is the regnant will, and that will has this characteristic — it loves principles, it hates compromises; and the principles it loves must be regulative, fit to be applied to the work and guidance of life.
  • Dominant, holding sway; holding particular power or influence.
  • * 2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), Hitch-22 , Atlantic 2011, p. 7:
    • The doors of his temples were kept open in time of war, the time in which the ideas of contradiction and conflict are most naturally regnant .
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