Adamant
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English
Adjective
Adamant (comparative more Adamant, superlative most Adamant)
- unyielding; a very hard substance
- resistant to reason; determined; inflexible; unshakeable; unyielding
Noun
Adamant (plural Adamants)- a rock or mineral held by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness
- an embodiment of impregnable hardness
- a magnet; a lodestone
Adverbs for Adamant
willfully; indomitably; bitterly; unyieldingly; obdurately; pitilessly; unrelentingly; unrepentantly; inexorably; stubbornly; obstinately; mulishly; doggedly; perversely; fanatically; pig-headedly; contumaciously; bigotedly.
Thesaurus
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; 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;
Pronunciation
Derived terms
- adamance n
- adamantane a
- adamantean a
- adamantine a
- adamantly adv
