Preg″nant (?), a. [L. praegnans, -antis; prae before + genere, gignere, to beget: cf. F. prégnant. See Gender, 2d Kin.]
1. Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth.
2. Heavy with important contents, significance, or issue; full of consequence or results; weighty; as, pregnant replies. “ A pregnant argument.” Prynne. “ A pregnant brevity.” E. Everett.
3. Full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.; as, a pregnant youth. Evelyn.
Wherein the pregnant enemy does much. Shak.
Pregnant construction(Rhet.), one in which more is implied than is said; as, the beasts trembled forth from their dens, that is, came forth trembling with fright.