Synonyms of rocketing

rocketing 1 of 2

adjective

as in rapid

Related Words

• rapid
• rushing
• speeding
• meteoric
• flying
• lightning
• swift
• running
• racing
• speedy
• careering
• brisk
• warp-speed
• whirlwind
• barreling
• fleet
• hasty
• zipping
• breathless
• whirling
• scooting
• breakneck
• scudding
• scurrying
• bolting
• hurrying
• dizzy
• whisking
• accelerated
• expeditious
• prompt
• fast
• quick
• ready
• snappy
• hastened
• quickened
• rushed
• hurried

Dissimilar Words

• creeping
• dragging
• slow
• crawling
• lagging
• tardy
• leisurely
• sluggish
• dilatory
• languid
• laggard
• unhurried
• poky
• deliberate
• poking
• measured
• dillydallying
• dallying
• snail-paced
• dawdling
• snaillike
• lethargic
• inactive
• inert
• lounging
• loafing

rocketing

2 of 2

verb

present participle of rocket

1

as in speeding

to proceed or move quickly

the startled cat rocketed out of the room

Synonyms & Similar Words

• speeding
• flying
• scurrying
• rushing
• racing
• driving
• zipping
• hurrying
• traveling
• trotting
• chasing
• jumping
• buzzing
• running
• scooting
• darting
• blowing
• blasting
• hurtling
• tearing
• dashing
• scuttling
• stepping
• careering
• zooming
• ramming
• blazing
• careening
• ripping
• barreling
• whirling
• bolting
• shooting
• bowling
• hurling
• hustling
• breezing
• galloping
• coursing
• jogging
• hastening
• motoring
• pelting
• belting
• bustling
• jetting
• whisking
• humping
• cannonballing
• haring
• nipping
• rustling
• highballing
• bundling
• cracking (on)
• bombing
• beating it
• hying
• accelerating
• flitting
• scampering
• whizzing
• sprinting
• scudding
• stepping on it
• hotfooting (it)
• stampeding
• making tracks
• shaking a leg
• getting a move on
• scuffling
• beetling
• streaking
• outpacing
• outstripping
• outrunning
• overtaking
• quickening
• stepping out
• arrowing
• catching up
• beelining
• fast-forwarding

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• creeping
• crawling
• dragging
• poking
• lingering
• lagging
• hanging (around or out)
• poking
• strolling
• dawdling
• loitering
• shuffling
• sauntering
• ambling
• dallying
• lumbering
• decelerating
• plodding
• dillydallying
• slowing (down or up)
• tarrying

2

as in soaring

to rise abruptly and rapidly

the child actor rocketed to stardom at the age of eight

Synonyms & Similar Words

• soaring
• surging
• skyrocketing
• increasing
• peaking
• shooting (up)
• zooming
• swelling
• ballooning
• escalating
• proliferating
• mushrooming
• mounting
• intensifying
• burgeoning
• multiplying
• snowballing
• accumulating
• expanding
• waxing
• enlarging
• cresting
• heightening
• appreciating
• building up

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• plunging
• tumbling
• plummeting
• falling
• slumping
• nose-diving
• collapsing
• decreasing
• dropping
• diminishing
• contracting
• waning
• lessening

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of rocketing

Verb

Surveillance footage obtained by The News shows the explosion erupting on the building’s second floor, sending glass and other debris rocketing across the street. — Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2026

Shares have fully recovered from a deep dive early last year, rocketing more than 40% in the past 12 months. — ABC News, 2 July 2026

Buffalo Gap National Grassland is wide open in every direction—no trees, no buildings, nothing to blunt the gusts—and my bike zigzags, rocketing my stomach into my esophagus. — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 July 2026

Four years on from the invasion of Ukraine, Russia has proved remarkably resilient, shouldering sanctions, rocketing inflation, and depleted fiscal reserves. — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 30 June 2026

The vehicle that slammed into Susan Cameron’s car in September 2024 had been rocketing through a business district in Lenexa at more than 125 mph just before the crash, prosecutors said. — Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 30 June 2026

In a separate instance, a drone explosion sent the lid of a round oil container rocketing skyward. — Charles Maynes, NPR, 18 June 2026

Nikolas Kokovlis | Nurphoto | Getty Images With SpaceX's stock rocketing during its first three days of trading, Elon Musk's company is getting an assist from the Department of Justice, which asked a federal court in Mississippi to toss a case against the company brought by the NAACP. — Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 16 June 2026

The price for one month out peaked at more than $110 per barrel in April, after rocketing from less than $70 before the war began. — Sarah Lynch Baldwin, CBS News, 12 June 2026