Thesaurus:pregnant
English
Adjective
Sense: carrying an unborn child
Synonyms
- big [⇒ thesaurus] (sometimes figurative)
- carrying
- child-great (obsolete)
- delicate (colloquial)
- eating for two (colloquial)
- enceinte (legal)
- expectant
- expecting
- fertilized
- full (obsolete)
- gestating (biology)
- gravid
- great (obsolete, postpositive)
- have a bun in the oven
- heavy (obsolete)
- hormonal (offensive)
- in a family way
- in the club
- in the pudding club
- knocked up (sometimes offensive)
- preg (informal)
- pregs (informal)
- preggers (informal)
- preggie (informal)
- preggo (AU, UK)
- pregnant
- pupped (British)
- quick (archaic)
- up the duff (AU, UK)
- up the kyte (Scotland)
- up the stick
- up the stump (Canada)
- up the spout (informal)
- with child (dated)
Antonyms
Hyponyms
- in trouble [⇒ thesaurus] (euphemistic)
- the rabbit died
- with young
Further reading
- “161. production” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “pregnant” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.