Thesaurus / rocky
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
Megan Barrington watched the sun rise over the rocky outcrop.
TO REHEARSE PERSEVERANCE’S MISSION, SCIENTISTS PRETENDED TO BE A MARS ROVERLISA GROSSMANJULY 29, 2020SCIENCE NEWS
That extra carbon dioxide results in oceans that are more acidic, which makes it harder for corals to build their rocky homes.
LET’S LEARN ABOUT CORAL REEFSBETHANY BROOKSHIREJULY 22, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTS
That means it probably has to be a gas giant like Jupiter rather than a rocky planet like Earth.
DEVELOPING PLANET EMERGES IN A SWIRL OF GASLISA GROSSMANJULY 6, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTS
However, he explains, that broth could be a liquid water ocean — one that exchanges chemicals with some rocky surface.
PLANETS WITH HYDROGEN SKIES COULD HARBOR LIFELISA GROSSMANJUNE 2, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTS
Because things are only going to get rockier through election day.
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They are best suited for chalk districts or rocky ones, where they thrive most luxuriantly, and make a very brilliant display.
THE WILD GARDENWILLIAM ROBINSON
I am afraid to say at what angle the rocky wall went up above us.
TO THE WESTGEORGE MANVILLE FENN
Across the entrance the floor sloped up to the rocky ridge, of which Mr. Rogers had spoken; and beyond the ridge lay the pool.
MAJOR VIGOUREUXA. T. QUILLER-COUCH
There was often dryness in his handling, and something too much of the theatrical in his wrecks on rocky shores.
A TEXT-BOOK OF THE HISTORY OF PAINTINGJOHN C. VAN DYKE
The soil was rather stiff, and indicated a rocky formation, blocks of granite projecting from it in various directions.
VOYAGE OF H.M.S. RATTLESNAKE, VOL. 2 (OF 2)JOHN MACGILLIVRAY
WORDS RELATED TO ROCKY
- ambiguous
- borderline
- chancy
- contingent
- dangerous
- delicate
- dicey
- dubious
- dynamite
- equivocal
- hairy
- hanging by a thread
- hazardous
- iffy
- impugnable
- indecisive
- insecure
- loaded
- on thin ice
- open
- out on a limb
- perilous
- problematic
- risky
- rocky
- rugged
- sensitive
- shaky
- slippery
- ticklish
- touch and go
- touchy
- uncertain
- unhealthy
- unreliable
- unsafe
- unsettled
- unstable
- unsteady
- unsure
- chancy
- delicate
- dicey
- endangered
- fraught with danger
- going for broke
- hairy
- hanging by a thread
- hazardous
- iffy
- insecure
- jeopardous
- long shot
- not a prayer
- off the deep end
- on slippery ground
- on the spot
- on thin ice
- out on a limb
- perilous
- playing with fire
- precarious
- rocky
- sensitive
- speculative
- ticklish
- touch-and-go
- touchy
- treacherous
- tricky
- uncertain
- unhealthy
- unsafe
- unsound
- venturesome
- wicked
- wide-open
- asperous
- bearded
- brambly
- bristly
- broken
- bumpy
- bushy
- chapped
- choppy
- coarse
- cragged
- craggy
- cross-grained
- disheveled
- fuzzy
- hairy
- harsh
- jagged
- knobby
- knotty
- nappy
- nodular
- not smooth
- ridged
- rocky
- ruffled
- rugged
- scabrous
- scraggy
- shaggy
- sharp
- stony
- tangled
- tousled
- tufted
- unequal
- unfinished
- unlevel
- unshaven
- unshorn
- woolly
- wrinkled
- wrinkly
- asperous
- bearded
- brambly
- bristly
- broken
- bumpy
- bushy
- chapped
- choppy
- coarse
- cragged
- craggy
- cross-grained
- disheveled
- fuzzy
- hairy
- harsh
- jagged
- knobby
- knotty
- nappy
- nodular
- not smooth
- ridged
- rocky
- ruffled
- rugged
- scabrous
- scraggy
- shaggy
- sharp
- stony
- tangled
- tousled
- tufted
- unequal
- unfinished
- unlevel
- unshaven
- unshorn
- woolly
- wrinkled
- wrinkly
- asperous
- bearded
- brambly
- bristly
- broken
- bumpy
- bushy
- chapped
- choppy
- coarse
- cragged
- craggy
- cross-grained
- disheveled
- fuzzy
- hairy
- harsh
- jagged
- knobby
- knotty
- nappy
- nodular
- not smooth
- ridged
- rocky
- ruffled
- rugged
- scabrous
- scraggy
- shaggy
- sharp
- stony
- tangled
- tousled
- tufted
- unequal
- unfinished
- unlevel
- unshaven
- unshorn
- woolly
- wrinkled
- wrinkly
- all aquiver
- aquake
- aquiver
- ashake
- faltering
- fluctuant
- infirm
- insecure
- jellylike
- jerry-built
- jittery
- nervous
- not set
- precarious
- quaking
- quivery
- rattletrap
- rickety
- rocky
- rootless
- shaking
- tottering
- tottery
- tremorous
- tremulous
- tumbledown
- unfirm
- unsettled
- unsound
- unstable
- unsteady
- unsure
- vacillating
- wavering
- weak
- wobbly
- yielding
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.