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adamantly

[ad-uh-muhnt, -mant]

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adjective

utterly unyielding in attitude or opinion in spite of all appeals, urgings, etc.

too hard to cut, break, or pierce.

noun

any impenetrably or unyieldingly hard substance.

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

Related forms

ad·a·man·cy

[ad-uh-muhn-see] , ad·a·mance, noun

ad·a·mant·ly, adverb

un·ad·a·mant, adjective

Synonyms
1. inflexible, rigid, uncompromising.

Antonyms
1. flexible, easygoing, yielding.

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Example Sentences

The company's own sales force adamantly declared it impossible to sell.

America, on the other hand, remains adamantly opposed.

He adamantly refuses to use a computer and isn't all that fond of hand-held calculators either.

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The company's own sales force adamantly declared it impossible to sell.

America, on the other hand, remains adamantly opposed.

He adamantly refuses to use a computer and isn't all that fond of hand-held calculators either.

Greenberg's attorney adamantly denies the allegations.

But he adamantly refused to go into the details of how he severed a tendon in his right pinky.

It adamantly rejects the temptations of isolationism, however.

Evans adamantly denied any violation yesterday and has appealed the results of the test.

And they adamantly refuse to put on the table any meaningful programme that would actually reduce spending.

Menotti's works, this one adamantly refuses to surprise us.

Workers' life may be jeopardized but not adamantly over, since they're well-equipped.

When offered female companionship, they have adamantly refused it.

Bernal has consistently and adamantly failed to actually address the motion.

Both men have adamantly insisted that those financial relationships have not affected their scientific judgment.

My neighbor, who owns the alley, adamantly objects.

Dixon was brilliant, but also adamantly inner-directed.

Cannuscio for getting cold feet on a project he once adamantly campaigned for.

Salinas has adamantly denied any ties to drug traffickers.

Her parents were adamantly opposed to her auditioning, much less becoming a dancer.

He was adamantly pro-African and sought to re-create governmental.

Amerman financially benefited from the reported accounting scheme, a charge he has adamantly rejected.

French officers who conducted the investigation adamantly defend their findings.

Hart adamantly insisted that his ambivalence about politics was in fact a strength.

Her spunk is an inspiration to everyone, as the film so adamantly wants it to be.

He was adamantly opposed to static displays of plants and flowers.

Giuliani has adamantly denounced the use of racial or ethnic considerations in setting city policies.

And this, too, is why he argued so adamantly against the influence of clerics in government.

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adamant (ˈædəmənt)

—*adj*
1.	unshakable in purpose, determination, or opinion; unyielding
2.	a less common word for adamantine

—n
3.	any extremely hard or apparently unbreakable substance
4.	a legendary stone said to be impenetrable, often identified with the diamond or loadstone

[Old English: from Latin adamant-, stem of adamas, from Greek; literal meaning perhaps: unconquerable, from a-¹ + daman to tame, conquer]

'adamantly

—*adv*

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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

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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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