adamant 音標拼音: ['ædəmənt]
n . 堅硬的東西
a . 非常堅硬的
堅硬的東西非常堅硬的
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 " [
synonym : {
adamant }, {
adamantine }, {
inexorable },
{
intransigent }]
n 1 :
very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem [
synonym :
{
diamond }, {
adamant }]
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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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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
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