embarazado

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /embaɾaˈθado/, [ẽmbaɾaˈθaðo]
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /embaɾaˈsado/, [ẽmbaɾaˈsaðo]

embarazado (feminine singular embarazada, masculine plural embarazados, feminine plural embarazadas)

1. (usually in the feminine form) pregnant

   El caballito de mar macho es el único animal que queda embarazado.

   The seahorse is the only male animal that gets pregnant.

   Parece ser que la increíble trama de la película “Junior” (1994), donde Arnold Schwarzenegger protagoniza, por amor, a un hombre embarazado, es también increíblemente, una realidad.

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   Synonyms: encinto, preñado

For obvious reasons, this adjective is far more commonly found in the feminine form embarazada. However, by convention, Spanish dictionaries give the masculine form of adjectives as the base form, hence it appears as such in this dictionary.

embarazado m (feminine singular embarazada, masculine plural embarazados, feminine plural embarazadas)

1. Masculine singular past participle of embarazar.

   Javier ha embarazado a María

   Javier has impregnated María.

   Ningún miembro de la familia está embarazado

   No member of the family is pregnant.

• Embarazado is a false friend, and does not mean “embarrassed”. The word for “embarrassed” in Spanish is avergonzado (or avergonzada in the feminine form)