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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}]

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.
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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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