adamant
/ˈæd.ə.mənt/
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India/ˈæ.ɖə.menʈ/
adamant adjective: firm; unshakeable; unyielding; determined.
Adjective
adamant (comparative more adamant, superlative most adamant)
- 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 apology2002, Charles Moncrief, Wildcatters: The True Story of how Conspiracy, Greed and the IRS ..., page 195
- Johan is determined to play the field and adamant about never committing.2006, Cara E. C. Vermaak, Confessions of the Dyslexic Virgin, page 275
- Very difficult to break, pierce, or cut.
- Unprotected matter, however adamant, would have been ground to dust ages ago.1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, page 34
Noun
adamant (plural adamants)
- 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.1582, Robert Parsons, chapter VIII, in The First Booke of the Christian Exercise, Appertayning to Resolution, G. Flinton
- As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead […]1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 3:9
- In later use: diamond.
- In later use: a lodestone.
- 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.c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First...
- A substance that neutralizes lodestones.
- 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 […]1657 [1608], Jean de Renou, translated by Richard Tomlinson, A Medicinal Dispensatory […], page 418
- 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.2012, Daryn Lehoux, What Did the Romans Knows? An Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking, →ISBN, page 139
- 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.1907 April, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, chapter XV, in The Longest Journey, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- impassivity, impenetrability, impregnability, unmovability
- A person or thing having the quality of attracting or drawing; a lodestone, a magnet.
adamant meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
adamant in Tamil
- வைரக்கல், வச்சிரம், பிடிவாதமான
adamant in Urdu
- adamant
- الماس almās
adamant in Bengali
- অটল, অনমনীয়
adamant in Malayalam
- inflexible, unshakable, immovable
- നിർബന്ധബുദ്ധിയുള്ള, വജ്രകഠിനമായ, ഇളക്കാനാവാത്ത, ഉലയ്ക്കാനാവാത്ത, വഴങ്ങാത്ത, അനങ്ങാത്ത
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- adamant in Sanskrit
- दृढ dṛḍha
- adamant in Tagalog
- adamantina
- adamant in Vietnamese
- kiên quyết
Examples of adamant in a sentence
- Just as he'd been adamant about their reading, writing, numbers, geography, and languages.2010, Deeanne Gist, Maid to Match, page 94:
- Most Panamanians are adamant that the canal, completed in 1914, will not return to U.S. control.2025 April 8, Whitney Eulich, Andrea Salcedo, “For Panamanians, the canal is theirs. But who profits from it?”, in The Christian Science...
- 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; […]1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […]...
Synonyms of adamant
Forms of adamant
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more adamant |
| superlative | most adamant |
| alternative form (obsolete) | adamaunt |
| Noun | |
| plural | adamants |
Origin of adamant
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.
Words formed from adamant
Questions about adamant
- What does adamant mean?
- Adamant means firm; unshakeable; unyielding; determined.
- What is adamant in Tamil?
- Adamant in Tamil is வைரக்கல், வச்சிரம், பிடிவாதமான. See Adamant meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use adamant in a sentence?
- Just as he'd been adamant about their reading, writing, numbers, geography, and languages.
- What part of speech is adamant?
- Adamant can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce adamant?
- Adamant is pronounced /ˈæd.ə.mənt/.
Words near adamant in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: adamant (page history and authors); adamant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); الماس (Urdu) (page history and authors); adamant (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); adamant (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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