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rocky
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective rocky has 4 senses
- rocky(s = adj.all) bouldered, bouldery, stony - abounding in rocks or stones; "rocky fields"; "stony ground"; "bouldery beaches" Derived forms noun rock1, noun rockiness1
- rocky(a = adj.all) bumpy, jolting, jolty, jumpy, rough - causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements; "a rough ride" Derived form noun rock7
- rocky(s = adj.all) Array - liable to rock; "on high rocky heels"
- rocky(s = adj.all) rough - full of hardship or trials; "the rocky road to success"; "they were having a rough time"
CIDE DICTIONARY
rocky, a.
- Full of, or abounding in, rocks; consisting of rocks; as, a rocky mountain; a rocky shore. [1913 Webster]
- Like a rock; as, the rocky orb of a shield. Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Fig.: Not easily impressed or affected; hard; unfeeling; obdurate; as, a rocky bosom. Shak. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
rocky, adj. & n.
--adj. (rockier, rockiest)
1 of or like rock.
2 full of or abounding in rock or rocks (a rocky shore).
--n. (the Rockies) the Rocky Mountains in western N. America.
--adj. (rockier, rockiest)
1 of or like rock.
2 full of or abounding in rock or rocks (a rocky shore).
--n. (the Rockies) the Rocky Mountains in western N. America.
Derivative
rockiness n.
rocky, adj. (rockier, rockiest) colloq. unsteady, tottering.
Derivative
rockily adv. rockiness n.
Etymology
ROCK(2)
THESAURUS
rocky
adamant, adamantine, ailing, apathetic, arduous, bad, below par, bony, bumpy, callous, cement, cemental, certain, cold, concrete, cool, corneous, corrugated, cragged, craggy, crinkled, critically ill, crumpled, crystal, crystalline, degage, dense, dependable, detached, determined, diamondlike, difficult, dilapidated, doddering, doubtful, down, dubious, dure, emotionless, faint, faintish, feeling awful, feeling faint, feeling something terrible, firm, flimsy, flintlike, flinty, granitelike, granitic, gravelly, gritty, groggy, hard, hard as nails, hardhearted, harsh, horny, iffy, ill, impassive, in danger, indifferent, indisposed, insecure, invariable, invariant, iron-hard, ironbound, ironlike, jagged, jaggy, laid low, lapideous, lithoid, lithoidal, marble, marblelike, monolithic, mortally ill, not quite right, obdurate, off-color, osseous, out of sorts, pebbled, pebbly, porphyritic, questionable, ragged, ramshackle, reliable, resistant, resistive, resolute, ricketish, rickety, rock-ribbed, rock-strewn, rock-studded, rockbound, rocklike, rugged, rugose, rugous, sandy, saw-toothed, sawtooth, scragged, scraggly, scraggy, seedy, serrate, serrated, shaky, shingled, shingly, sick, sick unto death, sickish, snagged, snaggled, snaggy, solid, spidery, spindly, staunch, steadfast, steady, steellike, steely, stonelike, stony, sure, taken ill, teetering, teetery, thick-skinned, tottering, tottery, tough, trachytic, treacherous, tumbledown, unbending, uncaring, uncertain, unchanging, uncomfortable, undependable, under the weather, unemotional, unfaltering, unfeeling, unflinching, unhealthy, unpredictable, unreliable, unsafe, unsound, unstable, unsteady, unsure, unsympathetic, untrustworthy, unvarying, unwavering, unwell, unyielding, vacillating, weak, wobbling, wobbly, wrinkled
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