Adamant

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Impervious to pleas, appeals, or reason; stubbornly unyielding. See Synonyms at inflexible.
  • n. A stone once believed to be impenetrable in its hardness.
  • n. An extremely hard substance.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Firm; unshakeable; unyielding; determined.
  • n. A rock or mineral held by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness.
  • n. An embodiment of impregnable hardness.
  • n. A magnet; a lodestone.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness.
  • n. Lodestone; magnet.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A name applied with more or less indefiniteness to various real or imaginary metals or minerals characterized by extreme hardness: as the diamond
  • n. the natural opposite of the diamond
  • n. a lodestone or magnet, and
  • n. an anti-magnet.
  • n. In general, any substance of impenetrable or surpassing hardness; that which is impregnable to any force.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason
  • n. very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem
    • Equivalent
    inflexible   
    Form
    adamantly    adamantine    adamantane    adamance    adamantean   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    lodestone    magnet    obstinate   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    inflexible    unanswerable    outspoken    amenable    thunderstruck   
     
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