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What is the adjective for rocklike?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb rock which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

rocky
  1. Unstable; easily rocked.
  2. In the style of rock and roll music.
  3. (figuratively) Troubled; or difficult; in danger or distress.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “In his paintings, with their air-spun castles and dense, rocky crags, presented in thick, hazy, heavily impastoed surfaces, the world is remote and ever retreating.”
      “Digging post holes in hard and rocky dirt and getting kicked by cows in chutes had gotten to be a bit onerous for aging muscles and joints.”
      “Cross the rocky bridge, carefully. There may be times when that may not be possible due to flooding.”
rocky
  1. Full of, or abounding in, rocks; consisting of rocks.
  2. Like a rock.
  3. (figuratively) Not easily impressed or affected; hard; unfeeling; obdurate
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “In his paintings, with their air-spun castles and dense, rocky crags, presented in thick, hazy, heavily impastoed surfaces, the world is remote and ever retreating.”
      “Digging post holes in hard and rocky dirt and getting kicked by cows in chutes had gotten to be a bit onerous for aging muscles and joints.”
      “Cross the rocky bridge, carefully. There may be times when that may not be possible due to flooding.”
rocking
rocklike
  1. Resembling a rock.
  2. Resembling rock music.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Was it not fear that had made his nerves so rocklike as he faced that crowd and made his get-away?”
      “And the opposite of faith is not so much doubt as fear, or the rocklike certainty of the closed mind.”
      “For this achievement, the rocklike Hindenburg, rather than Ludendorff, received the nation's applause.”
rockproof
  1. Resistant to damage caused by rocks.
rockerish
  1. Characteristic of a rocker (fan of rock music).
rockered
  1. (nautical) Shaped like a rocker; curved.
rockless
  1. Without rocks.
  2. Examples:
    1. “With The Rock's film career taking off, The Scorpion King got his own movie in 2002, and this is the Rockless, straight-to-DVD venture.”
rockingest
  1. (nonstandard, informal) Most rocking.
rocked
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