unpregnant

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adjective

Not pregnant.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

adjectiveunpregnant (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNot pregnant.

    The most offensive portrayal is John O'Meara's tortured Leontes: he milks every line with an unpregnant pause.

    1999 March 19, Lawrence Bommer, “The Winter's Tale”, in Chicago Reader
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    Again, a wife, unpregnant, and when she rightfully wishes to remain so, may be somewhat fearful of becoming pregnant when she meets her husband, and so hesitate to give her passion full play, thereby missing the utmost delights of an embrace--but if she be pregnant, and so has no fear on this score, she can give herself up to utter abandonment to her impulses.

    1919, H.W. Long, Sane Sex Life and Sane Sex Living

    I've read that people in their 30s only talk about babies and real estate, but since my friends and I are all broke and unpregnant, all we have is the naked fact of aging, stripped of the signifiers of responsibility.

    2007 April 27, Jessica Hopper, “Not Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll, Not Too Young to Die”, in Chicago Reader

Origin

Cite this entry
APA

unpregnant. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpregnant

MLA

“unpregnant.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpregnant. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unpregnant,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpregnant.

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