rockily
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a manner suggestive of a rock or rocks.
adv
adv
Example Sentences
- "https://web.archive.org/web/20060508091041/http://www.michaelmcfadyenscuba.info/articles/earprob.htm We arrive there five minutes later and I sit up very rockily. I have to get off this boat, I am getting sick."
- "https://web.archive.org/web/20050217043222/http://www.talkcinema.com/reviews/cannes9907.html French actress Sophie Marceau entered rockily on heels"
- "The hand-held camera rockily zooms in on one of the surgeons who is holding a circular surgical saw covered in dried blood."
- "Ten minutes before serving whisk up the whites of eggs with a little sugar and pile rockily on top."
- "http://www.dartmouth.edu/~doc/mountainbiking/roundsmartsmountain/ After the trail reaches the height of land, it descends sometimes steeply and often rockily."
- "Roads, railway, river, streams, a world in accurate and lively detail, with mountains sticking up abruptly and rockily, as the old painters painted it."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more rockily (comparative)
most rockily (superlative)