rocky

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

adj. rugged, stony, hard; unfeeling; dizzy, shaky. See roughness.

II

(Roget's IV) modif.

1. [Rocklike]

Syn. stony, flinty, hard, inflexible, solid, petrified, unfeeling, pitiless, obdurate, ragged, jagged, rugged, craggy, rockbound; see also stone .

2. [Shaky]

Syn. unsteady, uncertain, wobbly, chancy; see uncertain 2 , unsteady 1 .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.

1. stony flinty, craggy, rugged, jagged, petrous, gravelly, pebbly, bouldered, cobbled.

2. *tippy shaky, teetering, wobbly, tottering, unsteady, unstable.

ANT.: 2. stable, steady

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective Affected or tending to be affected with minor health problems: ailing, indisposed, low, mean2, off-color, sickly. Idiom: under the weather. See HEALTH.