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1. (adj.) adamant
utterly unyielding in attitude or opinion; inflexible.
2. adamant
hard; adamantine.
3. (n.) adamant
any unyieldingly hard substance.
4. adamant
a legendary stone of impenetrable hardness, formerly sometimes identified with the diamond.
Etymology: (1350–1400; < OF adamaunt < L adamant-, adamas hard metal, diamond < Gk)
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1. (adj) diamond, adamant
very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem
2. (adj) adamant, adamantine, inexorable, intransigent
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"
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1. (adjective) adamant
unwilling to change an opinion
He was adamant that he did no wrong.
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1. (noun) adamant
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
2. (noun) adamant
lodestone; magnet
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Sense: determined or insistent
an adamant refusal.
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 Afrikaans: onwrikbaar |
 Arabic: عَنِيد، صَلْب، مُتَصَلِّب |
 Bulgarian: твърд |
 Brazilian: inflexível |
 Czech: neústupný, pevný |
 German: unnachgiebig |
 Danish: ubøjelig; urokkelig |
 Greek: ανένδοτος, αποφασισμένος |
 Spanish: inflexible |
 Estonian: kindel |
 Farsi: سمج؛ مقاوم |
 Finnish: periksiantamaton |
 French: inflexible |
 Hebrew: קָשֶה, עִקֵש @@@עִיקֵש$$$ |
 Hindi: अडिग |
 Croatian: nepopustljiv |
 Hungarian: tántoríthatatlan |
 Indonesian: tegas, tetap tak berubah |
 Icelandic: ósveigjanlegur |
 Italian: inflessibile |
 Japanese: 確固とした |
 Korean: 단호한 |
 Lithuanian: tvirtas |
 Latvian: nelokāms |
 Malay: tegar hati |
 Dutch: keihard |
 Norwegian: ubøyelig, steil |
 Polish: zdecydowany |
 Persian: سمج؛ مقاوم |
 Pashto: پياوړ |
 Portuguese: inflexível |
 Romanian: ferm, hotărât |
 Russian: непреклонный |
 Slovak: pevný, neoblomný |
 Slovenian: nepopustljiv |
 Serbian: nepokolebljiv |
 Swedish: benhård, orubblig |
 Thai: แน่วแน่; ยืนกราน |
 Turkish: kararlı |
 Taiwanese: 堅定的 |
 Ukrainian: непохитний, невблаганний |
 Urdu: سخت ، |
 Vietnamese: kiên quyết |
 Chinese: 不动摇的 |
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