rocket | Definition of rocket

SELECT * from dictionary_thesaurus WHERE word = "rocket" OR word = "Rocket" OR word = "Rocket" rocket | Definition of rocket

Synonyms and Antonyms of rocket

1 to proceed or move quickly

the startled cat rocketed out of the room

Synonyms of rocket

barrel, belt, blast, blaze, blow, bolt, bomb [slang], bowl, breeze, bundle, bustle, buzz, cannonball, careen, career, chase, course, crack (on), dash, drive, fly, hare, hasten, hie, highball, hotfoot (it), hump, hurl, hurry, hurtle, hustle, jet, jump, motor, nip, pelt, race, ram, rip, run, rush, rustle, scoot, scurry, scuttle, shoot, speed, step, tear, travel, trot, whirl, whisk, zip, zoom

Words Related to rocket

beetle, dart, flit, scamper, scud, scuffle

stampede, streak, whiz (or whizz)

gallop, jog, sprint

accelerate, quicken, step out

catch up, fast-forward, outpace, outrun, outstrip, overtake

Phrases Synonymous with rocket

beat it, get a move on, make tracks, shake a leg, step on it

Near Antonyms of rocket

dally, dawdle, dillydally, drag, hang (around or out), lag, linger, loiter, poke, tarry

amble, lumber, plod, saunter, shuffle, stroll

decelerate, slow (down or up)

Antonyms of rocket

crawl, creep, poke

2 to rise abruptly and rapidly

the child actor rocketed to stardom at the age of eight

Synonyms of rocket

shoot (up), skyrocket, soar, zoom

Words Related to rocket

accumulate, appreciate, balloon, build up, burgeon (also bourgeon), enlarge, escalate, expand, increase, mount, multiply, mushroom, proliferate, snowball, swell, wax

crest, peak, surge

heighten, intensify

Near Antonyms of rocket

contract, decrease, diminish, drop, lessen, wane

Antonyms of rocket

nose-dive, plummet, plunge, slump, tumble