English Explanatory Dictionary

rocky

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Abounding in, or full of, rocks; consisting of rocks.
  2. Like a rock; rigid, solid.
  3. Having a habitat around or on rocks.
  4. Not easily affected or impressed; stony; hard; obdurate; unfeeling.
  5. Having little or no money; stony broke.
adj
  1. Easily rocked; unstable.
  2. Encountering many problems; difficult, troubled; also, in danger or distress.
  3. Of a person: ill, or unsteady (for example, as a result of a shock).
adj
  1. In the style of rock music.
name
  1. A diminutive of the male given names Robert, Ricky, Rocco, Roch, or Rock.
  2. Diminutive of Rock (“surname”).
  3. nickame for a boxer, after Rocky Balboa, a fictional boxer in a series of films.
  4. The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a motion picture.
  5. A placename
  6. Diminutive of Rockhampton; the regional city of Rockhampton; a city in Queensland, Australia.
  7. A town in Oklahoma, United States.

Pronunciation

rŏk′ē /ˈɹɒki/ [ˈɹʷɒki] /ˈɹɑki/ [ˈɹʷɑki] En-us-rocky.ogg /ˈɹɔki/ [ˈɹʷɔki] en-au-Rocky.ogg

Word forms

rocky rockier more rocky rockiest most rocky Rockys

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

flinty rocklike, rock-like stonelike tottering wobbly hard tough arduous challenging nasty difficult effortful rough rocky thistly uneath unsimple unsteady fluid chaotic instable irregular unstable variable varying shaky unnerved weakened rockesque rockish rocklike//rock-like

Related words

punk-rocky

Derived words

nonrocky Rockies Rocky Creek Rocky Face Rocky Ford Rocky Glen Rocky Hall Rocky Hill Rocky Mount Rocky Mountain Rocky Mountains rocky planet Rocky River rocky road Rocky View County rockily rockiness rocking chair rocking horse
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