"pronatalist" meaning in English

See pronatalist in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more pronatalist [comparative], most pronatalist [superlative]
Etymology: From pro- + natalist. Etymology templates: {{af|en|pro-|natalist}} pro- + natalist Head templates: {{en-adj}} pronatalist (comparative more pronatalist, superlative most pronatalist)
  1. Promoting child-bearing.
    Sense id: en-pronatalist-en-adj-Tbp~wZyu

Noun

Forms: pronatalists [plural]
Etymology: From pro- + natalist. Etymology templates: {{af|en|pro-|natalist}} pro- + natalist Head templates: {{en-noun}} pronatalist (plural pronatalists)
  1. One who believes in pronatalism. Categories (topical): People Synonyms: natalist
    Sense id: en-pronatalist-en-noun-lXIxvzzt Disambiguation of People: 12 88 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with pro-, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 31 69 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with pro-: 28 72 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 31 69 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 31 69

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "pro-",
        "3": "natalist"
      },
      "expansion": "pro- + natalist",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From pro- + natalist.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pronatalists",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "pronatalist (plural pronatalists)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "antinatalist"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "31 69",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "28 72",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with pro-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "31 69",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "31 69",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "12 88",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who believes in pronatalism."
      ],
      "id": "en-pronatalist-en-noun-lXIxvzzt",
      "links": [
        [
          "pronatalism",
          "pronatalism"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "natalist"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pronatalist"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "pro-",
        "3": "natalist"
      },
      "expansion": "pro- + natalist",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From pro- + natalist.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more pronatalist",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most pronatalist",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "pronatalist (comparative more pronatalist, superlative most pronatalist)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "antinatalist"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1980 December 20, “Hoarding The Pill”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 22, page 2:",
          "text": "Women in this country are reportedly hoarding contraceptives because they fear that the new Sandanista ^([sic]) government will discourage and possibly outlaw use of the \"pill\" and other birth control devices. According to Her Say […] Nicaraguan feminists say they believe the new government is adopting a \"pronatalist\" policy in order to populate sparsely populated areas, and to make up for the thousands killed during the Sandanista ^([sic]) Revolution that overthrew dictator Anastasio Somoza nine months ago.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2025 February 18, Arwa Mahdawi, “Elon Musk keeps bringing his kids to work – and the reasons aren’t cute at all”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "His acolytes seem to think it’s super-cute and a sign that the billionaire isn’t just the saviour of America and human civilisation, but also the world’s best dad – gallantly putting his pronatalist views into practice.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Promoting child-bearing."
      ],
      "id": "en-pronatalist-en-adj-Tbp~wZyu",
      "links": [
        [
          "child-bearing",
          "child-bearing"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pronatalist"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms prefixed with pro-",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "en:People"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "pro-",
        "3": "natalist"
      },
      "expansion": "pro- + natalist",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From pro- + natalist.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pronatalists",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "pronatalist (plural pronatalists)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "antinatalist"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who believes in pronatalism."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pronatalism",
          "pronatalism"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "natalist"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pronatalist"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms prefixed with pro-",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "en:People"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "pro-",
        "3": "natalist"
      },
      "expansion": "pro- + natalist",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From pro- + natalist.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more pronatalist",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most pronatalist",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "pronatalist (comparative more pronatalist, superlative most pronatalist)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "antinatalist"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1980 December 20, “Hoarding The Pill”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 22, page 2:",
          "text": "Women in this country are reportedly hoarding contraceptives because they fear that the new Sandanista ^([sic]) government will discourage and possibly outlaw use of the \"pill\" and other birth control devices. According to Her Say […] Nicaraguan feminists say they believe the new government is adopting a \"pronatalist\" policy in order to populate sparsely populated areas, and to make up for the thousands killed during the Sandanista ^([sic]) Revolution that overthrew dictator Anastasio Somoza nine months ago.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2025 February 18, Arwa Mahdawi, “Elon Musk keeps bringing his kids to work – and the reasons aren’t cute at all”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "His acolytes seem to think it’s super-cute and a sign that the billionaire isn’t just the saviour of America and human civilisation, but also the world’s best dad – gallantly putting his pronatalist views into practice.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Promoting child-bearing."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "child-bearing",
          "child-bearing"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pronatalist"
}

Download raw JSONL data for pronatalist meaning in English (2.8kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-21 using wiktextract (fef8596 and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.