Rocky

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: rock=y

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]

Rocky Mountain locust (Zoöl.), the Western locust, or grasshopper. See Grasshopper. -- Rocky Mountain sheep. (Zoöl.) See Bighorn.

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.

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