Adjective: gravid
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more gravid |
| Superlative | most gravid |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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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, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:]
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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:]
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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:]
Adjectives inflected like gravid
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Latin gravō
3. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
4. Proto-Italic *-iðos
5. Latin -idus
6. Latin gravidusder.
7. English gravid
8. From Latin gravidus (“laden, pregnant”), from gravis (“heavy”). See: Latin Adjectives '
gravidus'.
Verbs referencing "gravid"
Finnish Adjectives
gravidi.