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adjective
1.
utterly unyielding in attitude or opinion in spite of all appeals, urgings, etc.
2.
too hard to cut, break, or pierce.
noun
3.
any impenetrably or unyieldingly hard substance.
4.
a legendary stone of impenetrable hardness, formerly sometimes identified with the diamond.
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Origin:
before 900; Middle English < Old French adamaunt < Latin adamant- (stem of adamas) hard metal (perhaps steel), diamond < Greek, equivalent to a- a-6 + -damant- verbal adjective of damân to tame, conquer; replacing Old English athamans (< Medieval Latin ) and Middle English aymont < Middle French aimant < Vulgar Latin *adimant- < Latin
before 900; Middle English < Old French adamaunt < Latin adamant- (stem of adamas) hard metal (perhaps steel), diamond < Greek, equivalent to a- a-6 + -damant- verbal adjective of damân to tame, conquer; replacing Old English athamans (< Medieval Latin ) and Middle English aymont < Middle French aimant < Vulgar Latin *adimant- < Latin
Related forms
ad·a·mant·ly, adverb
un·ad·a·mant, adjective
Synonyms
1. inflexible, rigid, uncompromising.
1. inflexible, rigid, uncompromising.
Antonyms
1. flexible, easygoing, yielding.
1. flexible, easygoing, yielding.
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Word Origin & History
adamant
late 14c., "hard, unbreakable," from earlier noun (O.E. aðamans) meaning "a very hard stone," from L. adamantem (nom. adamas), from Gk. adamas (gen. adamantos) "unbreakable," the name of a hypothetical hardest material, perhaps lit. "invincible," from a- "not" + daman "to conquer, to tame" (see
EXPAND tame), or else a word of foreign origin altered to conform to Gk. Applied in antiquity to white sapphire, magnet (perhaps via confusion with L. adamare "to love passionately"), steel, emery stone, and especially diamond (see diamond). Figurative sense of "unshakeable" first recorded 1670s.
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