2
: abounding in fancy, wit, or resourcefulness : inventive - all this has been said … by great and pregnant artists
- —The Times Literary Supplement (London)
3
: rich in significance or implication - the pregnant phrases of the Bible
- —Edmund Wilson
4
: containing a developing embryo, fetus, or unborn offspring within the body : gravid
5
: having possibilities of development or consequence : involving important issues : momentous - draw inspiration from the heroic achievements of that pregnant age
- —Kemp Malone
6
obsolete
: inclined, disposed - your own most pregnant and vouchsafed ear
- —William Shakespeare