rock - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

pitching dangerously to one side

Synonyms

• careen
• rock
• sway
• tilt

More generic

• lurch
• pitch
• pitching

Noun

a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western

Synonyms

• rock
• rock 'n' roll
• rock and roll
• rock music
• rock'n'roll
• rock-and-roll

More generic

• popular music
• popular music genre

More specific

• acid rock
• art rock
• heavy metal
• heavy metal music
• progressive rock
• psychedelic rock
• punk
• punk rock

Related

• backbeat

Noun

hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint)

Synonyms

• rock
• rock candy

More generic

• candy
• confect

Noun

a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter

Synonyms

• rock
• stone

More generic

• natural object

More specific

• achondrite
• bedrock
• boulder
• bowlder
• calculus
• chondrite
• clastic rock
• concretion
• crystal
• crystallization
• intrusion
• outcrop
• outcropping
• pebble
• petrifaction
• rock outcrop
• sill
• stepping stone
• tor
• wall rock
• whin
• whinstone
• xenolith

Noun

(figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable

Synonyms

• rock

More generic

• good person

Noun

United States gynecologist and devout Catholic who conducted the first clinical trials of the oral contraceptive pill (1890-1984)

Synonyms

• John Rock
• Rock

Noun

material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust

Synonyms

• rock
• stone

More generic

• material
• stuff

More specific

• aphanite
• calc-tufa
• caliche
• claystone
• conglomerate
• crushed rock
• dolomite
• emery rock
• emery stone
• fieldstone
• gravel
• greisen
• igneous rock
• limestone
• magma
• marble
• matrix
• metamorphic rock
• pudding stone
• pumice
• pumice stone
• quartzite
• road metal
• sedimentary rock
• shingling
• sial
• sima
• tufa

Related

• mineral

Verb

move back and forth or sideways

Synonyms

• rock
• shake
• sway

More generic

• move back and forth

More specific

• nutate
• roll
• swag
• totter

Related

• rock
• sway

Verb

cause to move back and forth

Synonyms

• rock
• sway

More generic

• displace
• move

Related

• rock
• shake
• sway

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