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adamant

adj
/ˈæd.ə.mənt/

Etymology

From Middle English adamant, adamaunt, from Latin adamantem, accusative singular form of adamās (“hard as steel”), from Ancient Greek ἀδάμας (adámas, “invincible”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + δαμάζω (damázō, “to tame”) or of Semitic origin. Doublet of diamond.

  1. derived from ἀδάμας
  2. derived from adamantem
  3. inherited from adamant

Definitions

  1. Firm

    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
    • 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

  2. Very difficult to break, pierce, or cut.

    • Unprotected matter, however adamant, would have been ground to dust ages ago.

  3. 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.
    • 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; […]
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Chiefly in of adamant

      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.

    2. A person or thing having the quality of attracting or drawing

      A person or thing having the quality of attracting or drawing; a lodestone, a magnet.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA