Definitions for adamant
ˈæd ə mənt, -ˌmæntadamant

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.3 / 3 votes

1. diamond, adamantadjective

   very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem

2. adamant, adamantine, inexorable, intransigentadjective

   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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 2 votes

1. adamantnoun

   A rock or mineral held by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness.

2. adamantnoun

   An embodiment of impregnable hardness.

3. adamantnoun

   A magnet; a lodestone.

4. adamantadjective

   Resistant to reason; determined; inflexible; unshakeable; unyielding.

5. adamantadjective

   Sure, certain.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ADAMANTnoun

   Etymology: adamas, Lat. from α and δάμνω Gr. that is, insuperable, infrangible.

   1. A stone, imagined by writers, of impenetrable hardness.

   So great a fear my name amongst them spread,
   That they suppos’d I could rend bars of steel,
   And spurn in pieces posts of adamant. William Shakespeare, Henry V.

   Satan, with vast and haughty strides advanc’d,
   Came tow’ring, arm’d in adamant, and gold. Parad. Lost.

   Eternal Deities,
   Who rule the world with absolute decrees,
   And write whatever time shall bring to pass,
   With pens of adamant, on plates of brass. John Dryden, Fables.

   2. The diamond.

   Hardness, wherein some stones exceed all other bodies, and among them the adamant all other stones, being exalted to that degree thereof, that art in vain endeavours to counterfeit it, the factitious stones of chymists, in imitation, being easily detected by an ordinary lapidist. John Ray, on the Creation.

   3. Adamant is taken for the loadstone.

   Let him change his lodging from one end and part of the town to another, which is a great adamant of acquaintance. Francis Bacon, Essay xix.

   You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant!
   But yet you draw not iron; for my heart
   Is true as steel. William Shakespeare, Midsum Night’s Dream.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. adamant

   Adamant typically refers to a person who is extremely firm and resolute in their beliefs, opinions, or decisions. It suggests a strong determination to stand by their convictions, regardless of any objections or arguments presented.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. Adamantnoun

   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. Adamantnoun

   lodestone; magnet

3. Etymology: [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.]

WikidataRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. Adamant

   Adamant and similar words are used to refer to any especially hard substance, whether composed of diamond, some other gemstone, or some type of metal. Both adamant and diamond derive from the Greek word αδαμαστος, meaning "untameable". Adamantite and adamantium are also common variants. Adamantine has, throughout ancient history, referred to anything that was made of a very hard material. Virgil describes Tartarus as having a screeching gate protected by columns of solid adamantine. Later, by the Middle Ages, the term came to refer to diamond, as it was the hardest material then known, and remains the hardest non-synthetic material known. It was in the Middle Ages, too, that adamantine hardness and the lodestone's magnetic properties became confused and combined, leading to an alternate definition in which "adamant" means magnet, falsely derived from the Latin adamare, which means to love or be attached to. Another connection was the belief that adamant could block the effects of a magnet. This was addressed in chapter III of Pseudodoxia Epidemica, for instance. Since the word diamond is now used for the hardest gemstone, the increasingly archaic term "adamant" has a mostly poetic or figurative use. In that capacity, the name is frequently used in popular media and fiction to refer to a very hard substance.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Adamant

   ad′a-mant, n. a very hard stone: the diamond.—adjs. Adamantē&priprime;an (Milton), hard as adamant; Adaman′tine, made of or like adamant: that cannot be broken or penetrated. [L. and Gr. adamas, -antos—a, neg., and damaein, to break, to tame. See Tame.]

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon WurdzRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ADAMANT

   From "Adam's Aunt," reputed to be a hard character. Hence, anything tough, or hard.

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. adamant

   The loadstone; the magnet--the sense in which it was held by early voyagers; but others considered it a "precyowse stone," or gem.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of adamant in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of adamant in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of adamant in a Sentence

1. Sonya Sceats:

   The UN human rights chief has rightly concluded that Sri Lanka's domestic courts are ill-equipped to prosecute the heinous international crimes exposed by the UN investigation, sri Lankan torture survivors in treatment with us are adamant that they cannot trust a purely domestic process and will take comfort from the High Commissioner's warning that there must not be a replay of past broken promises.

2. Christopher Lafreniere:

   He didn't like people parking in his space, and he was really, really adamant, i didn't understand why.

3. Greg Pellegrino:

   I know I'm very adamant about saying 'no, we're not going to go down that route of having another child,' but I don't think it's a closed chapter. I don't think it's the end. We don't know what the next couple of years are going to look like. The door is slightly still open on my end.

4. Josh Kraushaar:

   It's a sign that the political reality has finally hit the Biden administration, that some of the more successful Democratic candidates, frankly, were ones like Congressman Henry Cuellar or Sen. Mark Kelly, who were adamant about their criticism of how the Biden administration has handled border security over the last two years.

5. David Milch:

   I had the great fortune to work with Gregory Peck, and Gregory Peck was really adamant to talk about,' Well, if three out of five [ hit ], that's not a bad thing,' you learn so much from the disappointments as well... So valuable, in terms of what I learned about television, about producorial aspects of it, so it's all part of what your tapestry is.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=adamant
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Adamant
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=adamant
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adamant
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=adamant
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=adamant
8. ^ The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1989/pg1989-images.html#:~:text=adamant
9. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=adamant