Word.ws English Dictionary

adhamant

adhamant adjective: clinging, as if by hooks.

Adjective

adhamant (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Clinging, as if by hooks.
    • Because C was K
    • "crow" is "work" backward. Back word,

Origin of adhamant

From the Latin adhāmāns (“catching”, stem: adhāmant-), from adhāmō, from ad- + hāmus (“hook”) + -ō.

Questions about adhamant

What does adhamant mean?
Adhamant means clinging, as if by hooks.
What part of speech is adhamant?
Adhamant is an adjective.

Words near adhamant in the dictionary

  1. adglutinated
  2. ADH
  3. Adhafera
  4. adhaka
  5. adhakas
  6. adhamant
  7. adhan
  8. Adhangau
  9. adhans
  10. Adhara
  11. Adharbaijan

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: adhamant (page history and authors). 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “adhamant.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/adhamant. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.