Synonyms for rocket
ˈrɒk ɪtrock·et

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1. rocket, projectilenoun

   any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine

   Synonyms:
   rocket engine, garden rocket, projectile, missile, skyrocket, arugula, rocket salad, roquette

2. rocket, rocket enginenoun

   a jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion

   Synonyms:
   rocket engine, garden rocket, projectile, skyrocket, arugula, rocket salad, roquette

3. rocket, roquette, garden rocket, rocket salad, arugula, Eruca sativa, Eruca vesicaria sativanoun

   erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender

   Synonyms:
   rocket engine, garden rocket, projectile, skyrocket, arugula, rocket salad, roquette

4. rocket, skyrocketnoun

   propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon

   Synonyms:
   rocket engine, garden rocket, projectile, skyrocket, arugula, rocket salad, roquette

5. skyrocket, rocketverb

   sends a firework display high into the sky

   Synonyms:
   rocket engine, garden rocket, projectile, skyrocket, arugula, rocket salad, roquette

6. rocket, skyrocketverb

   shoot up abruptly, like a rocket

   "prices skyrocketed"

   Synonyms:
   skyrocket

7. rocketverb

   propel with a rocket

   Synonyms:
   skyrocket

Matched Categories

1. • Herb
   • Jet Engine
   • Propel
   • Rise
   • Vehicle
   • Visual Signal

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. dead bird

   the result of my m-60 fire was the dead bird that crashed into the field; an rocket propelled grenade(rpg) made a dead bird out of that drone; the battalion had too many dead birds because of surface to air missiles(sams) in theater that day.

   Submitted by anonymous on May 31, 2020  

2. missle

   i launched the missle (rocket) into space.

   Submitted by rinat on August 28, 2019  

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1. List of paraphrases for "rocket":

   missile, rockets, missiles, rocket-propelled, flare

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1. Becky Hammond:

   No one said it was going to be easy. If being great was easy, everyone would be doing it, you have to hit some adversity. There should be some hiccups. We came out like a rocket and then hit some rough patches.

2. Paul Chodas:

   In a month or so we will get an indication of whether or not 2020 SO really is a rocket body, since we should start being able to detect the effect of sunlight pressure has on the motion of this object : if it really is a rocket body, it will be much less dense than an asteroid and the slight pressure due to sunlight will produce enough change in its motion that we should be able to detect it in the tracking data.

3. Alyssa Royse:

   Watching both the Covid-19 pandemic and then the United States waking up and fighting for social justice in a really big way and watching Rocket CrossFit say nothing was really painful.

4. Mark Milley:

   We have pretty good confidence who did this. We were able to capture the truck, it was a modified truck with tubes, rocket tubes on the back, Iraqi Security Forces did a good job in helping secure that truck. We have good indications based on forensics where it was fired from, who did the firing and so on and so forth.

5. Kevin Systrom:

   Entrepreneurs don't stay forever and I was actually amazed that we were on the far side of the average, it's kind of like a rocket. You have to aim it in the right direction, take your hands off and let it go... [ Instagram ] didn't feel done by any stretch of the imagination but it felt like it was in orbit.