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adamant
- /ˈæd.ə.mənt/
- /ˈæd.ə.mænt/
- /ˈæ.ɖə.menʈ/ India
- /ˈə.ɖə.menʈ/ India
Where it comes from
From Middle English adamant, adamaunt, from Latin adamantem, accusative singular form of adamās (“hard as steel”), from Ancient Greek ἀδάμαντ- (adámant-, “invincible”), oblique stem of ἀδάμας (adámas). Doublet of diamond.
adjective more adamant · most adamant · adamaunt
- Firm; unshakeable; unyielding; determined. Broiles and Kirkley were adamant about getting out of the lawsuit, but Mike and Dee were equally adamant about not wanting to sign a letter of apology
- Very difficult to break, pierce, or cut. Unprotected matter, however adamant, would have been ground to dust ages ago.
noun adamants · adamaunt
- An unspecified mineral or rock of virtually impenetrable hardness. This then is and alwayes hath ben the fashion of Worldlinges, & reprobate persons, to harden their hartes as an adamant stone, against anye thinge that shalbe tolde the for amendement of their lives, and for the savinge of their soules.
- In later use: diamond.
- In later use: a lodestone. You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant: / But yet you draw not iron, for all my heart / Is true as steel. Leave you your power to draw, / And I shall have no power to follow you.
- A substance that neutralizes lodestones. An Adamant hinders the attractive vertue, as also Garlick rubbed on the Magnet; for its attractive faculty is not so valid, but it may be easily deluded, obscured, and superated […]
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Chiefly in of adamant: an embodiment of impenetrable hardness; the quality of not being easily destroyed or overcome; impenetrableness, imperviousness, impregnableness; also, of a person: the quality of not being easily affected emotionally; impassiveness, unmovableness.
Actual life might seem to her so real that she could not detect the union of shadow and adamant that men call poetry.
Similar: impassivity, impenetrability, impregnability, unmovability
- A person or thing having the quality of attracting or drawing; a lodestone, a magnet.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: intransigent, inflexible, inexorable, adamantine, diamond, uncompromising, unyielding, unswerving, unwavering, unbending, unequivocal, obdurate, unshakeable, categorical, eterne, rigid
Translations
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adj determined; unshakeable; unyielding
| Español | acérrimo, abroquelarse |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 堅定不移 /坚定不移 jiāndìngbùyí, 堅決 /坚决 jiānjué, 不屈 bùqū |
| Português | adamantino, intransigente, inflexível, intolerante, firme, obstinado |
| Français | inflexible, catégorique |
| Deutsch | unnachgiebig, unerbittlich, felsenfest, rigoros, hartnäckig, stur |
| Italiano | irremovibile, ostinato |
| Română | neclintit |
| Русский | непода́тливый nepodátlivyj, непрекло́нный nepreklónnyj, категори́чный kategoríčnyj, непоколеби́мый nepokolebímyj, твёрдый tvjórdyj |
| Tiếng Việt | kiên quyết |
noun unspecified mineral or rock of virtually impenetrable hardness
| Español | adamante |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 金剛 kongō |
| 中文 | 金剛石 /金刚石 jīngāngshí |
| Português | adamante |
| Deutsch | Adamant |
| Italiano | adamantino |
| Русский | адамант adamant |
noun embodiment of impenetrable hardness
| 中文 | 堅固性 /坚固性 |
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