gravid

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

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹævɪd/

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gravid (comparative more gravid, superlative most gravid)

1. (of egglaying animals, now chiefly figuratively) Pregnant.
   • 1921, Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow‎^[1], London: Chatto & Windus:

     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.

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

     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

   • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, page 345:

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

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

     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.

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

• IPA^(key): /ɡraviːd/, [ɡ̊ʁɑˈviðˀ]

gravid

1. pregnant (carrying an unborn child)

• drægtig (of non-humans)
• frugtsommelig (archaic)
• med barn (“with child”)
• svanger (dated)
• ventende

From Latin gravidus (“pregnant”).

gravid (neuter singular gravid, definite singular and plural gravide)

1. pregnant (carrying an unborn child)

• drektig (of non-humans)
• svanger

• graviditet
• høygravid

• “gravid” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin gravidus (“pregnant”).

gravid (neuter singular gravid, definite singular and plural gravide)

1. pregnant (carrying an unborn child)

• drektig (of non-humans)
• svanger

• graviditet
• høggravid

• “gravid” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from French gravide, Italian gravido, Latin gravidus.

• IPA^(key): /ɡraˈvid/

gravid m or n (feminine singular gravidă, masculine plural gravizi, feminine and neuter plural gravide)

1. pregnant (carrying an unborn child)

   Synonyms: însărcinat, borțos

From Latin gravidus (“pregnant”).

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• Rhymes: -iːd

gravid (not comparable)

1. pregnant (carrying an unborn child, generally only applied to humans)

   Synonym: (somewhat formal) havande

   Hon blev gravid när hon hade sex

   She got pregnant when she had sex

   vara gravid i sjunde månaden

   be seven months pregnant

   (literally, “be pregnant in the seventh month”)

Neuter ("gravitt" or the like) is avoided.

• höggravid (“heavily pregnant”)

• graviditet (“pregnancy”)

• dräktig (of non-humans)

• gravid in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• gravid in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• gravid in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

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