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Adamant meaning in English

Meaning of Adamant in English

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Adamant

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Noun

1. adamant, diamond

very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem

Adjective

2. adamant, adamantine, inexorable, intransigent

impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason

Example Sentences:
'he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind'
'Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him'
'an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Adamant

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adjective
1. 
unshakable in purpose, determination, or opinion; unyielding
2.  a less common word for adamantine (sense 1)
noun
3. 
any extremely hard or apparently unbreakable substance
4. 
a legendary stone said to be impenetrable, often identified with the diamond or loadstone

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Adamant

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noun
1. 
in ancient times, a hard stone or substance that was supposedly unbreakable
2.  OLD-FASHIONED, Poetic
unbreakable hardness
adjective
3. 
too hard to be broken
4. 
not giving in or relenting; unyielding

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.


Adamant

see synonyms of adamant
adj.
Not willing to change one's opinion, purpose, or principles; unyielding.
n.
1. A stone once believed to be impenetrable in its hardness.
2. An extremely hard substance.

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