Adamantine

English

Adjective

Adamantine (comparative more Adamantine, superlative most Adamantine)

1. Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I:

     Him the Almighty Power

     Hurld headlong flaming from th' Ethereal Skie

     With hideous ruine and combustion down

     To bottomless perdition, there to dwell

     In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire,

     Who durst defie th' Omnipotent to Arms.

2. Like the diamond in hardness or luster.

Anagrams

• amantadine
• diamantane

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Italian

Adjective

adamantine f.

1. Feminine plural form of adamantino

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Latin

Adjective

adamantine

1. vocative masculine singular of adamantinus

et:adamantine fr:adamantine it:adamantine ta:adamantine te:adamantine vi:adamantine zh:adamantine