Crossword clues for adamant
adamant
- Female confronts male, beginning to threaten firm
- Legendary rock band oddly ignored by American books on the origins of alternative metal
- A mother encounters worker, unyielding
- Resolute Armada man taking ships
- Refusing to change
- Impervious to persuasion
- Impervious to all persuasion
- Immovable barrier straddled by a six-footer
- Determined to be a worker on embankment
- Determined soldier must support a parent
- Determined a soldier should get round blockage
- Unrelenting post-punk singer
- Unwilling to budge
- Unwilling to negotiate
- "Goody Two Shoes" singer
- Unwilling to move
- Unwilling to give in
- Unlikely to take no for an answer
- Too hard to be broken
- Standing pat
- Punk rocker with striped face
- Musician with the real name Stuart Goddard
- Impossible to move
- Impervious to pleas or persuasion
- Impervious to appeals
- Hard-nosed and unbending
- British New Wave singer
- Headstrong
- Unyielding rock singer?
- Hardly flexible
- Inflexible in attitude
- Far from easygoing
- Not budging
- Rigid
- Refusing to give
- Not taking no for an answer
- Unwavering
- Disinclined to move
- Very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem
- Rock star
- Unlikely to reconsider
- Intractable
- Impenetrably hard
- Unbending
- Obdurate
- An unbreakable substance
- Utterly unyielding
- Firm in one's view
- Mother inspired by a poet, not quite sure
- Absolutely certain woman is to reject first soldier
- A collection of facts and figures not entirely inspiring chap to be resolute
- See 7 Down
- First male worker showing stubborn determination
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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.
Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield.
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Lodestone; magnet. [Obs.] ``A great adamant of acquaintance.''
--Bacon.As true to thee as steel to adamant.
--Greene.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "hard, unbreakable," from adamant (n.). Figurative sense of "unshakeable" first recorded 1670s. Related: Adamantly; adamance.
mid-14c., from Old French adamant and directly from Latin adamantem (nominative adamas) "adamant, hardest iron, steel," also figuratively, of character, from Greek adamas (genitive adamantos) "unbreakable, inflexible" metaphoric of anything unalterable, also the name of a hypothetical hardest material, perhaps literally "invincible," from a- "not" + daman "to conquer, to tame" (see tame (adj.)), or else a word of foreign origin altered to conform to Greek.\n
\nApplied in antiquity to a metal resembling gold (Plato), white sapphire, magnet (by Ovid, perhaps via confusion with Latin adamare "to love passionately"), steel, emery stone, and especially diamond (see diamond). "The name has thus always been of indefinite and fluctuating sense" [Century Dictionary]. The word was in Old English as aðamans "a very hard stone."
Wiktionary
a. firm; unshakeable; unyielding; determined. n. An imaginary rock or mineral of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness.
WordNet
adj. not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course; unsusceptible to persuasion; "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 tendancy" [syn: adamantine, inexorable, intransigent]
n. very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem [syn: diamond]
Wikipedia
'''Adamant ''' and similar words are used to refer to any especially hard substance, whether composed of diamond, some other gemstone, or some type of metal. Both adamant and diamond derive from the Greek word αδαμαστος (adamastos), meaning "untameable". Adamantite and adamantium (a metallic name derived from the Neo-Latin ending -ium) are also common variants.
Adamantine has, throughout ancient history, referred to anything that was made of a very hard material. Virgil describes Tartarus as having a screeching gate protected by columns of solid adamantine ( Aeneid book VI). Later, by the Middle Ages, the term came to refer to diamond, as it was the hardest material then known, and remains the hardest non-synthetic material known.
It was in the Middle Ages, too, that adamantine hardness and the lodestone's magnetic properties became confused and combined, leading to an alternate definition in which "adamant" means magnet, falsely derived from the Latin adamare, which means to love or be attached to. Another connection was the belief that adamant (the diamond definition) could block the effects of a magnet. This was addressed in chapter III of Pseudodoxia Epidemica, for instance.
Since the word diamond is now used for the hardest gemstone, the increasingly archaic term "adamant" has a mostly poetic or figurative use. In that capacity, the name is frequently used in popular media and fiction to refer to a very hard substance.
Adamant is a short film created by Giacomo Mantovani in 2011. The production was completed in 2 weeks by a cast and crew of 10 people, on location in the central London. The short garnered its first award at the 242 Movie TV contest "Reason Wine", which has been promoted by Ente Mostra Vini - Enoteca Italiana. The contest's main goal was the objective to realize cinematographic short films, of max 2 minute length, to promote the culture of the wine "Made in Italy" and the "drinking responsibly" for the young generations.
Adamant is a poetic term used to refer to any especially hard substance. It may also refer to:
- Adam Adamant Lives!, a BBC television series in the 1960s
- Adam Ant (born 1954), New Romantic singer of the 1980s
- HMS Adamant, several ships of the Royal Navy
- Adamant (film), a 2011 short film by Giacomo Mantovani
- Adamant, Vermont
- USS Adamant (AMc-62), an Accentor-class minesweeper in the United States Navy during World War II
- Adamant Co., Ltd., a Japanese company
- Adamant, an iron barque (sailing ship) that brought immigrants to New Zealand in the late 19th century
- Adamant, an album by the German band Stahlmann
- Adamant, a cement plaster named after the producing company in the early 20th century
Usage examples of "adamant".
We wondered for a long while why Kadra was so adamant about evacuating Tenua to the Abesse and sending her people straight into Volan hands.
Besides, Cil is very adamant about not disclosing too much information.
Even that Dagon felt was excessive, but she had been adamant, and Bernard was in agreement, so to keep the both of them happy and himself sane he had given his permission.
Even as he spoke, Ainslie was reminded of the few dissidents labeled by prosecutors as a lunatic fringe who argued that Elroy Doil, because of his adamant denials, had not been proven guilty.
But in the manner of personal protection, he had proved adamant, and so Giliahna rode sweltering in three-quarter armor, extra-heavy tournament plate borrowed for the occasion from one of the smaller noble fosterlings of the court.
Pink granite islands dot the north shore in groups that afford harbourage, but all shores present an adamant front, edges sharp as a knife or else rounded hard to have withstood and cut the tremendous ice jam of a floating world suddenly contracted to forty miles, which Davis Strait pours down at the east end and Fox Channel at the west.
Cassius was adamant that the enemy would not advance east of Thessalonica in this terrible year, for to do so would stretch their supply lines intolerably, given that the Liberator fleets owned the seas.
The latter allowance was really the best, because Mary was adamant, even in the face of disagreement by Mollen, against the idea of working Jim any more than an ordinary eight hours a day.
Button quite adamant on this, and it took her several months of pestering to win him over.
Faith demurred, adamant in her determination to be there if and when Pres put in an appearance.
Mum had heard that girls purposely dressed skimpily to catch the eye of drivers as they raced to the sinful south and she was adamant that my clothes should be modest.
Madame Wisk, the head housekeeper had been quite adamant that she and the other girls receiving detention did the job right.
Eric was adamant that he would attend, but just in case, could I call on Parky if at the last moment Eric decided he was not up to it?
Prom Committee remains adamant, however, that it will have the prom off school grounds, or not at all.
House of Saints Ehlaina and Faiohdohra foolishly remained adamant in the face of this resolute and unbiddable lord.