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Synonyms for rocky
ˈrɒk irock·y

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  1. rocky, bouldery, bouldered, stonyadjective

    abounding in rocks or stones

    "rocky fields"; "stony ground"; "bouldery beaches"

    Synonyms:
    rocklike, bouldery, stony, jumpy, flinty, rough, granitic, jolty, bumpy, granitelike, obdurate, jolting, flint, bouldered

    Antonyms:
    easy, stable, smooth

  2. rough, rocky, bumpy, jolty, jolting, jumpyadjective

    causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements

    "a rough ride"

    Synonyms:
    bumpy, approximative, rough, highly strung, pugnacious, jolting, bouldered, approximate, gravelly, bouldery, edgy, uptight, fierce, harsh, overstrung, high-strung, restive, nervy, scratchy, stony, crude, jumpy, boisterous, grating, jolty, raspy, unsmooth, jittery, uncut, rasping

    Antonyms:
    easy, stable, smooth

  3. rockyadjective

    liable to rock

    "on high rocky heels"

    Synonyms:
    bouldery, stony, jumpy, rough, jolty, bumpy, jolting, bouldered

    Antonyms:
    stable, smooth, easy

  4. rocky, roughadjective

    full of hardship or trials

    "the rocky road to success"; "they were having a rough time"

    Synonyms:
    bumpy, rough, raspy, jolting, pugnacious, bouldered, jolty, crude, gravelly, bouldery, fierce, harsh, unsmooth, scratchy, stony, jumpy, boisterous, grating, approximate, approximative, uncut, rasping

    Antonyms:
    easy, smooth, stable

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "rocky":

    rock, rocko, balboa, roque

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#101493restive
#133494pugnacious
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#147394rasping
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#180563flinty
#181393nervy
#241914approximative

How to use rocky in a sentence?

  1. Slobodan Jovicic:

    It's shown that( A$ AP Rocky) was followed and provoked.

  2. Dave Rubin:

    This is the fight of a generation, but the fight of a generation is not, say, 1980s, you know capitalism vs. communism, United States vs. Russia, Rocky Balboa vs. Ivan Drago where the lines were clearly drawn.

  3. Jason Dittmann:

    It's very interesting to me that we have just discovered a super-Earth right up against that boundary, the fact that the planet is rocky and in its star's habitable zone also raises its intrigue, because we may now have a planet suitable for the search for life as well.

  4. Neeta Pardanani Connally:

    Rocky Mountain's not the first time ticks have been found in unusual places.

  5. Ali Agha:

    We have very limited information about the composition of the surface. Rocky terrain, methane lakes, cryovolcanoes - we potentially have all of these, but we don't know for certain, so we thought about how to create a system that is versatile and capable of traversing different types of terrain but also compact enough to launch on a rocket.


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