rocky
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- abounding in rocks or stones
- "rocky fields"
- liable to rock
- "on high rocky heels"
- full of hardship or trials
- "the rocky road to success"
Adjective
- causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements
Adj
- Abounding in, or full of, rocks; consisting of rocks.
- Like a rock; rigid, solid.
- Having a habitat around or on rocks.
- Not easily affected or impressed; stony; hard; obdurate; unfeeling.
- Easily rocked; unstable.
- Encountering many problems; difficult, troubled; also, in danger or distress.
- Of a person: ill, or unsteady (for example, as a result of a shock).
- In the style of rock music.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English rokki, rokky (“rocky”), from rok, rokke (“rock; a rock or stone; large rock by a coast or in the sea; rocky outcrop on a mountain, cliff; castle, citadel, stronghold”) [and other forms] + -i (suffix forming adjectives). Rok, rokke are derived from:
* Old English *rocc (“rock”); and
* Anglo-Norman roc, roce, roque, and Old French roce, roke, roque, variants of roche (“rock”);
both from Medieval Latin roca, rocca; further etymology uncertain, possibly of Celtic origin. The English word is analysable as rock + -y (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘having the quality of’).
Synonyms
arduous, bouldered, bouldery, bumpy, challenging, chaotic, difficult, effortful, flinty, hard, instable, irregular, jolting, jolty, jumpy, rockesque, rockish, rocklike, rock-like, rocky, rough, shaky, stonelike, stony, thistly, tottering, tough, uneath, unnerved, unsimple, unstable, unsteady, variable, varying, weakened, wobbly
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 14
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