adamantium

noun
/ˌæ.dəˈmæn.tɪ.əm/US

Etymology

From adamant + -ium (suffix forming humorous- or scientific-sounding fictional substance names).

  1. derived from ἀδάμας
  2. derived from adamantem
  3. inherited from adamant
  4. formed as adamantium — “adamant + -ium

Definitions

  1. A fictional metal which is indestructible or nearly so.

    • It was a bullet. It was a small slug of adamantium, the toughest and hardest of all metals, crammed to capacity with the terrific explosive feroxite and would burst instantly on any reasonable heavy impact.
    • It's imperative that these experiments be concluded with haste! The military must know the potential of this new adamantium at once! Even the President is standing by!
    • We knew the egg was adamantium. Not much else could have been learnt.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for adamantium. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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