rocky

4 definitions found

rocky - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Rocky \Rock"y\, a.
     1. Full of, or abounding in, rocks; consisting of rocks; as,
        a rocky mountain; a rocky shore.
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     2. Like a rock; as, the rocky orb of a shield. --Milton.
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     3. Fig.: Not easily impressed or affected; hard; unfeeling;
        obdurate; as, a rocky bosom. --Shak.
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     Rocky Mountain locust (Zool.), the Western locust, or
        grasshopper. See Grasshopper.
  
     Rocky Mountain sheep. (Zool.) See Bighorn.
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rocky - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  rocky
      adj 1: abounding in rocks or stones; "rocky fields"; "stony
             ground"; "bouldery beaches" [syn: rocky, bouldery,
             bouldered, stony]
      2: causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements; "a
         rough ride" [syn: rough, rocky, bumpy, jolty,
         jolting, jumpy] [ant: smooth]
      3: liable to rock; "on high rocky heels"
      4: full of hardship or trials; "the rocky road to success";
         "they were having a rough time" [syn: rocky, rough]

rocky - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Rocky, OK (town, FIPS 63700)
    Location: 35.15635 N, 99.05852 W
    Population (1990): 181 (106 housing units)
    Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 73661

rocky - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  174 Moby Thesaurus words for "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