Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not willing to change one's opinion, purpose, or principles; unyielding.
- noun A stone once believed to be impenetrable in its hardness.
- noun An extremely hard substance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name applied with more or less indefiniteness to various real or imaginary metals or minerals characterized by extreme hardness: as the diamond
- noun the natural opposite of the diamond
- noun a lodestone or magnet, and
- noun an anti-magnet.
- noun In general, any substance of impenetrable or surpassing hardness; that which is impregnable to any force.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
- noun obsolete Lodestone; magnet.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Firm ;unshakeable ;unyielding ;determined . - noun A rock or mineral held by some to be of
impenetrable hardness ; a name given to thediamond and other substances of extreme hardness. - noun An
embodiment ofimpregnable hardness. - noun A
magnet ; alodestone .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason
- noun very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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While some analysts believe the Fed's move has been largely priced in, others remain adamant that the U.S. currency will suffer as long as policy is eased further.
Easing Uncertainty Pushes Dollar Lower Nick Hastings 2010
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I was adamant from the outset that it should be packaged like fiction … petite |
Oh my… 2007
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Still, Republicans say they remain adamant that public broadcasting cannot receive funding at the expense of healthcare and education programs.
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Anorexia is defined as the adamant conscious refusal to eat, to the point of self-starvation; in extreme cases, it can be so severe as to cause death.
Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986
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I shall say, he that can take a prospect of the eternally miserable condition of multitudes among whom we live, and the approaching miseries which, without repentance and reformation, will not be avoided, and not spend some tears on them, hath a heart like a flint or adamant, that is capable of no impression.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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It is the greatest kind of hardness; and hence they are said to be harder than a rock, or than an adamant, that is, harder than flint; so hard, that nothing can enter (Jer 5: 3; Zech 7: 12).
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 John Bunyan 1658
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I'm always kind of adamant that musicians should not be visual artists.
Jon Chattman: Band on the Rise: The Naked and the Famous Break Out of NZ Jon Chattman 2011
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I'm always kind of adamant that musicians should not be visual artists.
Jon Chattman: Band on the Rise: The Naked and the Famous Break Out of NZ Jon Chattman 2011
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Director Ruba Nadda says she was "adamant" that the character be 50 years old.
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Laura Bush was "adamant" about it, but kept it all quiet.
elisheba commented on the word adamant
see also syn. adamantine (poet.) - "unbreakable"
September 2, 2008
elisheba commented on the word adamant
i particularly like the collocation "to be adamant that"
September 2, 2008
dimã©lion commented on the word adamant
one of my very favourite words. they forgot to put in the definition "a legendary rock or mineral to which many, often contradictory, properties were attributed, formerly associated with diamond or lodestone." that's my favourite part of this word.
November 22, 2008
dimã©lion commented on the word adamant
i also really wanted to include this, from the Oxford dictionary:
ORIGIN Old English (as a noun), from Old French adamaunt-, via Latin from Greek adamas, adamant, ‘untamable, invincible’ (later used to denote the hardest metal or stone, hence diamond), from a- ‘not’ + daman ‘to tame.’ The phrase to be adamant dates from the 1930s, although adjectival use had been implied in such collocations as “an adamant heart�? since the 16th cent.
November 22, 2008
martagreen commented on the word adamant
"But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom." -Mahatma Gandhi (An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth)
March 7, 2009
catspringer commented on the word adamant
What, it doesn't mean to have hidden vices? "Don't smoke, don't drink...what do you do?"
April 10, 2009
avsar commented on the word adamant
adamant can also be used to describe one's refusal to be persuaded or change mind
July 5, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word adamant
Aw shoot! I must have left the sugar out.
December 25, 2009
pradyumnaojha commented on the word adamant
BK is an adamant manager who never accepts suggestions from his team members.
February 15, 2013
mohitanand commented on the word adamant
adjective: refusing to change one's mind
Civil rights icon Rosa Parks will forever be remembered for adamantly refusing to give up her seat on a public bus--even after the bus driver insisted, she remained rooted in place.
October 19, 2016
Logophile77 commented on the word adamant
cf. evewomant.
February 1, 2018