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. Dwight D Eisenhower:

   Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. . .  This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

2. Kim Dong-yub:

   North Korea is trying to selectively modernize conventional forces in a low-cost, high-efficiency way to focus on the economy and reassure the military while nuclear talks are under way, and the rocket launcher is a product of that effort, the latest test indicated that the system was ready for mass production and deployment.

3. Susan Coppedge:

   If you're going to an Asian massage parlor, there's a chance that someone is not there willingly, most people don't need a massage at 4 a.m. ... It's not rocket science when it comes to the massage parlors.

4. Melissa Hanham:

   The rocket ejected, began to light, and then failed catastrophically.

5. Mark Kelly:

   Getting to space is not rocket science, it’s political science!