adamant
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: more adamant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most adamant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: adamaunt
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: adamants
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: adamaunt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Firm; unshakeable; unyielding; determined.
pos: adj
examples: 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
Johan is determined to play the field and adamant about never committing.
What good would such foolishness do a mountain man? But Pa had been adamant. Just as he'd been adamant about their reading, writing, numbers, geography, and languages. Just as he'd been adamant about using proper grammar
Most Panamanians are adamant that the canal, completed in 1914, will not return to U.S. control.
gloss: Very difficult to break, pierce, or cut.
pos: adj
examples: Unprotected matter, however adamant, would have been ground to dust ages ago.
gloss: An unspecified mineral or rock of virtually impenetrable hardness.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead […]
But this was a finale she ever avoided: an offer, like the rock of adamant in Sinbad's voyages, finishes the attraction by destroying the vessel; […]
gloss: An unspecified mineral or rock of virtually impenetrable hardness.
pos: noun
tags: historical
poetic
gloss: An unspecified mineral or rock of virtually impenetrable hardness.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
poetic
examples: 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.
gloss: An unspecified mineral or rock of virtually impenetrable hardness.
pos: noun
examples: 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 […]
But we know from book 37 of the Natural History that adamant works on magnets in exactly the same way that garlic does: robbing them of their power to attract.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Actual life might seem to her so real that she could not detect the union of shadow and adamant that men call poetry.
gloss: A person or thing having the quality of attracting or drawing; a lodestone, a magnet.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
obsolete
Derived words: adamance
adamantane
adamantean
adamantic
adamantine
adamantium
adamantize
adamantly
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 金剛石 /金刚石
roman: jīngāngshí
lang: Dutch
word: adamant
lang: Galician
word: adamantium
lang: Galician
word: adamante
lang: German
word: Adamant
lang: Irish
word: adhmaint
lang: Italian
word: adamantino
lang: Japanese
word: 金剛
roman: kongō
lang: Lithuanian
word: adamantas
lang: Polish
word: adamant
lang: Portuguese
word: adamante
lang: Russian
word: адамант
roman: adamant
lang: Spanish
word: adamante
lang: Swedish
word: adamant
lang: Tagalog
word: adamantina