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单词 rock-ribbed
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Definition of rock-ribbed in English:

rock-ribbed

adjective
North American
  • 1Resolute or uncompromising, especially with respect to political allegiance.

    a rock-ribbed Republican
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Although a flaming liberal during the war, he became a rock-ribbed far-right conservative immediately afterward.
    • Consequently, rock-ribbed demagoguery and uncompromising resistance seemed to be the only responses available to southerners who opposed desegregation.
    • My parents were not politically active, although they considered themselves rock-ribbed Reagan Republicans.
    • Most of the military will remain rock-ribbed Republican.
    • He obviously admired Sosa's rock-ribbed stamina: Sosa is a very good fighter as he showed against several players.
    • Under Jackson, the Lakers have played more aggressively against screens, in the style of the rock-ribbed Eastern teams.
    • The reformist state of Peter, Catherine, and - to a much lesser degree - Alexander I had ossified under Nicholas I into a rock-ribbed Restoration police-state.
    • Resolutions have appeared in small towns in rock-ribbed conservative Idaho, where Republicans reign supreme, and in major cities like Chicago, long dominated by the Democratic Party.
    • It was this group, founded by rock-ribbed conservatives and opponents of the president in 1940, that was the biggest and best-organized antiwar movement in American history.
    • He was a rock-ribbed conservative Republican.
    • I guessed that he probably never fit in too well with North Dakota's rock-ribbed mainstream.
    • These early 19th-century landscape paintings, which are often taken today as rock-ribbed representations of an intensely local and untouched landscape, were not always what they seemed.
    • She was a rock-ribbed anti-abortion, anti-tax conservative elected to her first term in 2002.
    • Now he was running as a rock-ribbed conservative on social as well as fiscal issues.
    • Keep in mind, the 22nd District is not his old rock-ribbed Republican seat.
    Synonyms
    determined, firm, resolute, resolved, purposeful, purposive, sure, self-disciplined, strong-willed, uncompromising, unyielding, unbending, unwavering, unswerving, unfaltering, unshakeable, inexorable, forceful, persistent, persevering, tenacious, dogged, stubborn
  • 2(of landscape) characterized or dominated by rock formations; craggy.

    six thousand miles of rock-ribbed coasts
 
 

Definition of rock-ribbed in US English:

rock-ribbed

adjectiveˈräkˌribd
North American
  • 1Resolute or uncompromising, especially with respect to political allegiance.

    a rock-ribbed Republican
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I guessed that he probably never fit in too well with North Dakota's rock-ribbed mainstream.
    • These early 19th-century landscape paintings, which are often taken today as rock-ribbed representations of an intensely local and untouched landscape, were not always what they seemed.
    • Resolutions have appeared in small towns in rock-ribbed conservative Idaho, where Republicans reign supreme, and in major cities like Chicago, long dominated by the Democratic Party.
    • It was this group, founded by rock-ribbed conservatives and opponents of the president in 1940, that was the biggest and best-organized antiwar movement in American history.
    • Now he was running as a rock-ribbed conservative on social as well as fiscal issues.
    • Although a flaming liberal during the war, he became a rock-ribbed far-right conservative immediately afterward.
    • He obviously admired Sosa's rock-ribbed stamina: Sosa is a very good fighter as he showed against several players.
    • He was a rock-ribbed conservative Republican.
    • Keep in mind, the 22nd District is not his old rock-ribbed Republican seat.
    • My parents were not politically active, although they considered themselves rock-ribbed Reagan Republicans.
    • Most of the military will remain rock-ribbed Republican.
    • Under Jackson, the Lakers have played more aggressively against screens, in the style of the rock-ribbed Eastern teams.
    • The reformist state of Peter, Catherine, and - to a much lesser degree - Alexander I had ossified under Nicholas I into a rock-ribbed Restoration police-state.
    • Consequently, rock-ribbed demagoguery and uncompromising resistance seemed to be the only responses available to southerners who opposed desegregation.
    • She was a rock-ribbed anti-abortion, anti-tax conservative elected to her first term in 2002.
    Synonyms
    determined, firm, resolute, resolved, purposeful, purposive, sure, self-disciplined, strong-willed, uncompromising, unyielding, unbending, unwavering, unswerving, unfaltering, unshakeable, inexorable, forceful, persistent, persevering, tenacious, dogged, stubborn
  • 2(of landscape) characterized or dominated by rock formations; craggy.

    six thousand miles of rock-ribbed coasts
 
 
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