adamant

Noun · Adjective
Synonyms: diamondadamantineinexorableintransigent

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

  1. very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gemSynonyms: diamond

Adjective (1)

  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”Synonyms: adamantineinexorableintransigent
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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.[1913 Webster]

2.Lodestone; magnet. [Obs.] "A great adamant of acquaintance." --Bacon. [1913 Webster]

As true to thee as steel to adamant.— Greene.[1913 Webster]

The Devil's Dictionary

ADAMANT, n. A mineral frequently found beneath a corset. Soluble in solicitate of gold.
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