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English

Etymology

From adamantem, accusative singular form of adamas "hard as steel", from < (adamas) "invincible", from (a-) "not" + (damazo) "I tame".

Adjective

resistant to reason; determined; inflexible; unshakeable; unyielding

Translations

German: felsenfest

Noun

a rock or mineral imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness
an embodiment of impregnable hardness
lodestone; magnet

Quotations

1956 — w:Arthur C. Clarke|Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, p 34
:Unprotected matter, however adamant, would have been ground to dust ages ago.

Derived terms

References

ar:adamant et:adamant io:adamant ru:adamant fi:adamant ta:adamant te:adamant vi:adamant tr:adamant zh:adamant

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Adamant \Ad"a*mant\ ([a^]d"[.a]*m[a^]nt), n. [OE. adamaunt,
adamant, diamond, magnet, OF. adamant, L. adamas, adamantis,
the hardest metal, fr. Gr. 'ada`mas, -antos; 'a priv. +
dama^,n to tame, subdue. In OE., from confusion with L.
adamare to love, be attached to, the word meant also magnet,
as in OF. and LL. See Diamond, Tame.]
1. 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.
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Opposed the rocky orb
Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield. --Milton.
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2. Lodestone; magnet. [Obs.] "A great adamant of
acquaintance." --Bacon.
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As true to thee as steel to adamant. --Greene.
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WordNet adamant
adj : not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course;
unsusceptible to persuasion; "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
tendancy" [syn: adamantine, inexorable, intransigent]
n : very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem [syn: diamond]

Moby Dictionary
adamantine , at a standstill , cast-iron , dour , firm , flintlike ,
flinty , frozen , granitelike , granitic , grim , hard , hard-core ,
immobile , immotile , immotive , immovable , immutable , implacable ,
impliable , inductile , inelastic , inexorable , inextensible ,
inextensile , inextensional , inflexible , intractable , intractile ,
intransigent , iron , irreconcilable , irremovable , irresilient ,
lithic , marblelike , nonelastic , nonstretchable , obdurate , pat ,
petrified , petrogenic , relentless , rigid , rigorous , rock ,
rock-ribbed , slaty , standpat , stationary , steely , stern , stiff ,
stone , stubborn , unaffected , unalterable , unbending , unchangeable ,
uncompromising , unextendible , unextensible , unflexible , ungiving ,
unlimber , unmalleable , unmovable , unmoved , unmoving , unpliable ,
unpliant , unrelenting , unswayable , untractable , unyielding

Adamant (Heb. shamir), Ezek. 3:9. The Greek word adamas means diamond. This stone is not referred to, but corundum or some kind of hard steel. It is an emblem of firmness in resisting adversaries of the truth (Zech. 7:12), and of hard-heartedness against the truth (Jer. 17:1).

ADAMANT, n. A mineral frequently found beneath a corset. Soluble in solicitate of gold.

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