Sekirov Dictionary

adamant

/ˈæd.ə.mənt/

noun 6
adjective 2
forms 3

noun6

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An unspecified mineral or rock of virtually impenetrable hardness.
- As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead […] — 1611
(literary, historical) In later use: diamond.
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(figurative) Chiefly in of adamant: an embodiment of impenetrable hardness; the quality of not being easily destroyed or overcome; impenetrableness, imperviousness, impregnableness; also, of a person: the quality of not being easily affected emotionally; impassiveness, unmovableness.
- Actual life might seem to her so real that she could not detect the union of shadow and adamant that men call poetry. — 1907
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A substance that neutralizes lodestones.
- An Adamant hinders the attractive vertue, as also Garlick rubbed on the Magnet; for its attractive faculty is not so valid, but it may be easily deluded, obscured, and superated […] — 1657
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(literary, no longer used) In later use: a lodestone.
- 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. — 1595
(figurative, no longer used) A person or thing having the quality of attracting or drawing; a lodestone, a magnet.

adjective2

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Firm; unshakeable; unyielding; determined.
- Broiles and Kirkley were adamant about getting out of the lawsuit, but Mike and Dee were equally adamant about not wanting to sign a letter of apology — 2002
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Very difficult to break, pierce, or cut.
- Unprotected matter, however adamant, would have been ground to dust ages ago. — 1956

forms

adamants · more adamant · most adamant

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