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Definition of Adamant
1. Noun. Very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem.
Generic synonyms: Atomic Number 6, C, Carbon, Transparent Gem
Specialized synonyms: Black Diamond, Carbonado
2. Adjective. Impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason. "An intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency"
Similar to: Inflexible
Derivative terms: Adamance, Inexorableness, Intransigence, Intransigency
Definition of Adamant
1. n. 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.
Definition of Adamant
1. Adjective. Resistant to reason; determined; inflexible; unshakeable; unyielding. ¹
2. Adjective. (context: of a person) Sure, certain. ¹
3. Noun. A rock or mineral held by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness. ¹
4. Noun. An embodiment of impregnable hardness. ¹
5. Noun. A magnet; a lodestone. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Adamant
1. an extremely hard substance [n -S]
Medical Definition of Adamant
1. 1. A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substance of extreme hardness; but in modern minerology it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness. "Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield." (Milton) 2. Lodestone; magnet. "A great adamant of acquaintance." "As true to thee as steel to adamant." (Greene) Origin: OE. Adamaunt, adamant, diamond, magnet, OF. Adamant, L. Adamas, adamantis, the hardest metal, fr. Gr,; priv. + 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adamant
Literary usage of Adamant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books by John Milton (1750)
"... bare Of this round world: with pins of adamant And chains they made all faft,
too faft they made And durable; and now in little ..."
2. A Classical Technology by John Miller Burnam (1920)
"ON THE adamant STONE The adamant stone is produced from the concoction of calamine
and gold in the first gathering of the mass after the first reduction. ..."
3. Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities by Harry Thurston Peck (1897)
"... with a nail of the same kind, or of adamant, wherewith to rivet, ns it were,
irrevocably the decrees of Fortune. ..."
4. Logs of the Great Sea Fights, 1794-1805 by Thomas Sturges Jackson (1899)
"The people employed knotting and splicing the rigging. adamant [The ...
the circumstances it is probable that some other ship was mistaken for the adamant. ..."
5. Original Plays by William Schwenck Gilbert (1908)
"PRINCESS IDA; CASTLE adamant. A RESPECTFUL OPERATIC PER-VERSION OP TENNYSON'S "
PRINCESS," IN THREE ACTS. Produced at the Savoy Theatre, Saturday, ..."
6. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"... she will stupefy thee, kill thee straight, and, Medusa like, turn thee to a
stone; thou canst not pull thine eyes from her, but as an adamant doth iron, ..."
7. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"... she will stupefy thee, kill thee straight, and, Medusa like, turn thee to a
stone ; ou canst not pull thine eyes from her, but as an adamant oth iron, ..."
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