adamant

5 definitions found

adamant - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Adamant \Ad"a*mant\ ([a^]d"[.a]*m[a^]nt), n. [OE. adamaunt,
     adamant, diamond, magnet, OF. adamant, L. adamas, adamantis,
     the hardest metal, fr. Gr. 'ada`mas, -antos; 'a priv. +
     dama^,n to tame, subdue. In OE., from confusion with L.
     adamare to love, be attached to, the word meant also magnet,
     as in OF. and LL. See Diamond, Tame.]
     1. 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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Opposed the rocky orb
              Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield. --Milton.
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     2. Lodestone; magnet. [Obs.] "A great adamant of
        acquaintance." --Bacon.
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              As true to thee as steel to adamant.  --Greene.
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adamant - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  adamant
      adj 1: impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; "he is
             adamant in his refusal to change his mind"; "Cynthia was
             inexorable; she would have none of him"- W.Churchill; "an
             intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal
             tendency" [syn: adamant, adamantine, inexorable,
             intransigent]
      n 1: very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem [syn:
           diamond, adamant]

adamant - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Adamant
  (Heb. shamir), Ezek. 3:9. The Greek word adamas means diamond.
  This stone is not referred to, but corundum or some kind of hard
  steel. It is an emblem of firmness in resisting adversaries of
  the truth (Zech. 7:12), and of hard-heartedness against the
  truth (Jer. 17:1).

adamant - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Adamant, VT
    Zip code(s): 05640

adamant - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  75 Moby Thesaurus words for "adamant":
     adamantine, at a standstill, cast-iron, dour, firm, flintlike,
     flinty, frozen, granitelike, granitic, grim, hard, hard-core,
     immobile, immotile, immotive, immovable, immutable, implacable,
     impliable, inductile, inelastic, inexorable, inextensible,
     inextensile, inextensional, inflexible, intractable, intractile,
     intransigent, iron, irreconcilable, irremovable, irresilient,
     lithic, marblelike, nonelastic, nonstretchable, obdurate, pat,
     petrified, petrogenic, relentless, rigid, rigorous, rock,
     rock-ribbed, slaty, standpat, stationary, steely, stern, stiff,
     stone, stubborn, unaffected, unalterable, unbending, unchangeable,
     uncompromising, unextendible, unextensible, unflexible, ungiving,
     unlimber, unmalleable, unmovable, unmoved, unmoving, unpliable,
     unpliant, unrelenting, unswayable, untractable, unyielding