Great
Great adjective - In an advanced stage of pregnancy.
Usage example: was great with child
With child is a synonym for great. In some cases you can use "With child" instead an adjective "Great".
With child
With child adjective - In an advanced stage of pregnancy.
Both terms in one sentence
- Disney felt the effects of this too with Alice in Wonderland (2010) and Oz: The Great and Powerful - based on stories with child protagonists, but featuring adults as the leads instead.
Source: Genre-Killer - You're gonna turn around, go home, get naked, lie together as man and wife until Lily is great with child!
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Family Matters had a scene where Steve Urkel tells a passenger stuck on a train on Christmas Eve that she should feel extra Christmas cheer because she too is "great with child", only for the woman to say she's not pregnant.
Source: Mistaken for Pregnant
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With child or Great. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/great/with_child.
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