gravid

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US, UK/ˈɡɹævɪd/

adjective

Pregnant.

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bigenceinteexpectantgreatlargeheavywith childpregnant
OriginLatin gravidus ← Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- →
UncommonScrabble 11
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Meanings

adjectivegravid (comparative more gravid, superlative most gravid)

comparative more gravid · superlative most gravid

  1. figurativelyPregnant.

    One slender hand was raised in a graceful gesture gravid with meaning.

    2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN, page 345
    3 more examples

    In vast state incubators, rows upon rows of gravid bottles will supply the world with the population it requires. The family system will disappear; society, sapped at its very base, will have to find new foundations; and Eros, beautifully and irresponsibly free, will flit like a gay butterfly from flower to flower through a sunlit world.

    1921, Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus

    The gravest problems of obstetrics and forensic medicine were examined with as much animation as the most popular beliefs on the state of pregnancy such as the forbidding to a gravid woman to step over a country stile lest, by her movement, the navelcord should strangle her creature

    1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC

    The minute she'd settled into the seat next to him, her billowing widow's rig had got redisposed to reveal her neatly gravid waistline, at which, now, he nodded.

    2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Bilocations”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 507

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivein an advanced stage of pregnancy

Similar
bigenceinteexpectantgreatlargeheavywith childpregnant
Also see
bigenceinteexpectantgreatheavyknocked uplargepregpreggerspregnantquickwith child

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Latingravō
  2. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
  3. Latingravidus
  4. Englishgravid

From Latin gravidus (“laden, pregnant”), from gravis (“heavy”).

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Translations

Bulgarian бременна
  • бременна (bremenna)pregnant (now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically)
Chinese Mandarin 怀孕的, 妊娠的
  • 怀孕的 (huáiyùn de)pregnant (now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically)
  • 妊娠的 (rènshēn de)pregnant (now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically)
Czech těhotný, gravidní
  • těhotnýpregnant (now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically)
  • gravidnípregnant (now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically)
  • březípregnant (now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically)
Dutch zwanger, drachtig
  • zwangerpregnant (now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically)
  • drachtigpregnant (now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically)
Esperanto graveda
  • gravedapregnant (now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically)
Finnish gravidi
  • gravidipregnant (now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically)
French gravide
  • gravidepregnant (now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically)
German trächtig, gravid
  • trächtigpregnant (now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically)
  • gravidpregnant (now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically)
Indonesian gravid
  • gravidpregnant (now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically)
Japanese 妊娠した, 身重
  • 妊娠した (ninshin shita)pregnant (now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically)
  • 身重 (miomo)pregnant (now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically)
Latin gravidus
  • graviduspregnant (now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically)
Portuguese grávida
  • grávidapregnant (now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically)
Russian бере́менная, жерёбая
  • бере́менная (berémennaja)pregnant (now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically)
  • жерёбая (žerjóbaja)pregnant (now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically)
Spanish grávido, embarazado
  • grávidopregnant (now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically)
  • embarazadopregnant (now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically)
  • encintapregnant (now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically)
Vietnamese có thai
  • có thaipregnant (now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically)
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