rocky
/ˈɹɑki/ adjective C2- Easily rocked; unstable. · The table was rocky, so we put a book under one leg.
- Encountering many problems; difficult, troubled; also, in danger or distress. · Their relationship had weathered some rocky times, but they loved each other.
- Of a person: ill, or unsteady (for example, as a result of a shock).
Comparative rockier · Superlative rockiest
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Dantès from his rocky perch saw the shattered vessel, and among the fragments the floating forms of the hapless sailors.
They whirled up Forty-second to Broadway, and then down the white-starred lane that leads from the soft meadows of sunset to the rocky hills of morning.
They traveled that day and part of the next until they came to the rocky plain where the Tin Woodman lay, all battered and bent.
Again he climbed the rocky height he had ascended the previous evening, and strained his view to catch every peculiarity of the landscape; but it wore the same wild, barren aspect when seen by the rays of the morning sun which it had done when surveyed by the fading glimmer of eve.
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