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rockish

rockish adjective: like a rock; stony; (figuratively) hard; callous.

Adjective (1)

rockish (comparative more rockish, superlative most rockish)

  1. Like a rock; stony; (figuratively) hard; callous
    • God did strike them with Egyptian and Babylonish rods, but there were no tears, no relentings, no returnings, but grew harder and harder, even to a rockish hardiness.1837, William Greenhill, James Sherman, An Exposition of the Prophet Ezekiel

Adjective (2)

rockish (comparative more rockish, superlative most rockish)

  1. That has the characteristics of rock music.
    Synonyms:
    rockesque, rocklike

Synonyms of rockish

Forms of rockish

comparativemore rockish
superlativemost rockish

Origin of rockish

From rock (“stone”) + -ish.

From rock (“rock music”) + -ish. Piecewise doublet of rockesque.

Questions about rockish

What does rockish mean?
Rockish means like a rock; stony; (figuratively) hard; callous.
What part of speech is rockish?
Rockish is an adjective.

Words near rockish in the dictionary

  1. Rockingham
  2. Rockingham County
  3. Rockinghams
  4. rockingly
  5. rockings
  6. rockish
  7. rockism
  8. rockist
  9. rockists
  10. Rockite
  11. Rockites

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