with child

ADJECTIVE

expectant

Synonyms

WEAK

enceinte expecting gravid parturient pregnant

ADJECTIVE

expecting

Synonyms

STRONG

carrying

WEAK

childbearing expectant in a family way

ADJECTIVE

fertile

Synonyms

STRONGEST

abundant arable fruitful lush productive rich

WEAK

bearing black bountiful breeding breedy bringing forth childbearing childing fecund feracious flowering flowing with milk and honey generative gravid hebetic loamy luxuriant plenteous plentiful pregnant procreant producing proliferant prolific puberal pubescent rank spawning teeming uberous vegetative virile yielding

Antonyms

STRONGEST

barren impotent sparse unfruitful unproductive

WEAK

fruitless infertile sterile useless

ADJECTIVE

impregnated

Synonyms

STRONG

bred

ADJECTIVE

in the family way

Synonyms

WEAK

anticipating carrying expecting gestating heavy with child knocked-up

ADJECTIVE

parturient

Synonyms

WEAK

abundant anticipating big carrying a child enceinte expectant expecting fecund fertile fraught fruitful gestating gravid heavy hopeful in a family way in family way parous preggers productive prolific replete teeming

ADJECTIVE

pregnant

Synonyms

WEAK

abundant anticipating carrying a child childbearing enceinte expectant expecting fecund fertile fraught fruitful gestating gravid heavy hopeful in family way parous parturient preggers productive prolific replete teeming

ADJECTIVE

proliferous

Synonyms

WEAK

abundant arable bearing black bountiful breeding breedy bringing forth childing fecund feracious flowering flowing with milk and honey fruitful generative gravid hebetic loamy lush luxuriant plenteous plentiful pregnant procreant producing productive proliferant prolific puberal pubescent rank rich spawning teeming uberous vegetative virile yielding

NOUN

family way

Synonyms

WEAK

carrying a child expecting gravid pregnant

Example Sentences

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Tyson signed up for a “baby-led weaning” course and made her mom, who helps with child care, enroll, too.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

Many experts believe the system for dealing with child criminal exploitation is not working properly at present, and children are slipping through the cracks.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

Some may rely on family members to help with child care, affecting their ability to work.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 21, 2026

The evidence regarding Tylenol use while with child, he notes, “is not sufficient to say it definitely caused autism, but it is very suggestive.”

From Slate • Jan. 20, 2026

It was worse for Mam, who discovered on the boat she was again with child and could hardly keep any food down.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

with child

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