adamant
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈæ.də.mənt/
adamant
- (said of people and their conviction) firm; unshakeable; unyielding; determined.
- (of an object) Very difficult to break, pierce, or cut.
- See also Thesaurus:obstinate
- French: inflexible, catégorique
- German: unnachgiebig, unerbittlich, felsenfest, rigoros, hartnäckig, stur, steinhart, eisern, fest, unerschütterlich, undurchdringbar, unüberwindbar, unverrückbar, sehr hart
- Italian: irremovibile, ostinato
- Portuguese: adamantino
- Russian: непода́тливый
- Spanish: firme, categórico, inflexible, impenetrable, obstinado, acérrimo
adamant (plural adamants)
- An imaginary rock or mineral of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness.
- An embodiment of impregnable hardness.
- A magnet; a lodestone.
- 1594–96, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream:
- 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.
- 1594–96, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream:
- German: adamant
- Italian: adamantino
- Portuguese: adamante
- Russian: адамант
- Spanish: adamantino
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