Adamant
['ædəm(ə)nt] or ['ædəmənt]
Definition
(adj.) impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; '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 tendency' .
Editor: Nettie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) Lodestone; magnet.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Diamond, crystallized carbon.
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Definition
n. a very hard stone: the diamond.—adjs. Adamantē′an (Milton) hard as adamant; Adaman′tine made of or like adamant: that cannot be broken or penetrated.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of adamant, denotes that you will be troubled and defeated in some desire that you held as your life.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A mineral frequently found beneath a corset. Soluble in solicitate of gold.
Typist: Waldo
Unserious Contents or Definition
From 'Adam's Aunt,' reputed to be a hard character. Hence, anything tough, or hard.
Typist: Nelly
Examples
- But when necessity demanded, he could be firm as adamant. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In the matter of gravy he is adamant. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But it looked at me over the head of Red Whisker, and I was adamant. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Why, these latter are as hard as adamant, as straight as a line, as smooth as a floor, and as white as snow. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In this cave are twenty lamps continually burning, which, from the reflection of the adamant, cast a strong light into every part. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The column itself is clearly not of adamant. Plato. The Republic.
- And now, though it seemed slighter and frailer than ever, it had suddenly hardened to adamant, and he might beat his life out against it in vain. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
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