About The Word Adamant
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Adamant
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What's The Definition Of Adamant?
[n] very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem
[adj] not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course; unsusceptible to persuasion; "he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind"; "Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him"- W.Churchill; "an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendancy" Synonyms | Synonyms for Adamant: adamantine | diamond | inexorable | inflexible | intransigent Related Terms | Find terms related to Adamant: adamantine | at a standstill | cast-iron | dour | firm | flintlike | flinty | frozen | granitelike | granitic | grim | hard | hard-core | immobile | immotile | immotive | immovable | immutable | implacable | impliable | inductile | inelastic | inexorable | inextensible | inextensile | inextensional | inflexible | intractable | intractile | intransigent | iron | irreconcilable | irremovable | irresilient | lithic | marblelike | nonelastic | nonstretchable | obdurate | pat | petrified | petrogenic | relentless | rigid | rigorous | rock | rock-ribbed | slaty | standpat | stationary | steely | stern | stiff | stone | stubborn | unaffected | unalterable | unbending | unchangeable | uncompromising | unextendible | unextensible | unflexible | ungiving | unlimber | unmalleable | unmovable | unmoved | unmoving | unpliable | unpliant | unrelenting | unswayable | untractable | unyielding See Also | atomic number 6 | black diamond | C | carbon | carbonado | transparent gem Adamant In Webster's Dictionary \Ad"a*mant\ ([a^]d"[.a]*m[a^]nt), n. [OE. adamaunt,
adamant, diamond, magnet, OF. adamant, L. adamas, adamantis,
the hardest metal, fr. Gr. 'ada`mas, -antos; 'a priv. +
dama^,n to tame, subdue. In OE., from confusion with L.
adamare to love, be attached to, the word meant also magnet,
as in OF. and LL. See {Diamond}, {Tame}.]
1. A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a
name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme
hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical
signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for
the embodiment of impenetrable hardness.
Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his ample
shield. --Milton.
2. Lodestone; magnet. [Obs.] ``A great adamant of
acquaintance.'' --Bacon.
As true to thee as steel to adamant. --Greene.
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