Rocky
['rɒkɪ] or ['rɑki]
Definition
(adj.) full of hardship or trials; 'the rocky road to success'; 'they were having a rough time' .
(adj.) abounding in rocks or stones; 'rocky fields'; 'stony ground'; 'bouldery beaches' .
(adj.) liable to rock; 'on high rocky heels' .
Editor: Nancy--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Full of, or abounding in, rocks; consisting of rocks; as, a rocky mountain; a rocky shore.
(a.) Like a rock; as, the rocky orb of a shield.
(a.) Fig.: Not easily impressed or affected; hard; unfeeling; obdurate; as, a rocky bosom.
Edited by Laurence
Examples
- There is a high rocky mound, called El Penon, on the right of the road, springing up from the low flat ground dividing the lakes. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It was fortified both on the top and on the rocky and precipitous sides. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I stood up and examined the rocky wall behind me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It is true that the country, from its rocky surface and unfertile soil, was extremely unfit for the maintenance of those animals. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- At length, a light on the summit of the rocky staircase gleamed through the snow and mist. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The cliff arose for several hundred feet on my right, and on my left was an equal and nearly perpendicular drop to the bottom of a rocky ravine. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- So, with hushed steps and in silence, we placed the dead on a bier of ice, and then, departing, stood on the rocky platform beside the river springs. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- That night he and McClernand were both at Rocky Springs ten miles from Hankinson's ferry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Picking our way so stealthily over that rocky, nettle-grown eminence, made me feel a good deal as if I were on my way somewhere to steal something. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I could see the rocky shore and the trees. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
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