🪑 Moving gently 🎉 Very exciting 🌊 Gentle movement

rocking

13 3.7

Very exciting and enjoyable, especially for music or parties

adjective
/ˈrɑkɪŋ/

Informal

: increíble

We had a rocking party with lively music that kept everyone dancing until dawn.

The stadium was rocking extremely loud lights.

Examples

The concert last night was absolutely rocking and everyone had a great time dancing.
Her performance was so rocking that the crowd couldn't stop cheering for an encore.
It's, you know, it's a real, it's a really rocking good time.

Synonyms

kickin'

vsrocking

Slang

11 9.0

Very lively and exciting, often about music or parties

is similar but more general and less slangy in tone

rollicking

vsrocking

5 6.0

Lively and full of fun, making people laugh

focuses on strong excitement especially at music or party events

Antonyms

boring

792 1.0

Not interesting and making you feel tired or impatient

dull

169 1.3

Not interesting or lively

Compounds

rocking chair

26 1.5

A chair that moves back and forth on curved legs

rocking horse

4 1.3

A child's toy horse on curved rockers that moves when you sit on it

rocking horse shit

Offensive

1 9.9

Something very silly and not true

How Exciting

awesome

∞ 2.1

rocking

Informal

13 3.7

exciting

∞ 1.0

good

∞ 1.0

enjoyable

115 1.0

nice

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

rocking positive

Morphology

rocking = rock (semi-transparent) = rock + ing

The 'exciting/excellent' sense is a slang/metaphorical extension of 'rock' (via music/performance), so learners who only know the literal motion sense may not infer it.

Etymology

Rocking meaning 'very exciting' comes from rock, the style of loud, lively music that gets people dancing. That's why a show or party that really excites people is called 'rocking'.