Adamant

Quick meaning: Adamant is an adjective meaning (said of people and their conviction) Firm; unshakeable; unyielding; determined.

Meaning

(said of people and their conviction) Firm; unshakeable; unyielding; determined.

More Meanings

1. (of an object) Very difficult to break, pierce, or cut.
2. An unspecified mineral or rock of virtually impenetrable hardness.
3. A person or thing having the quality of attracting or drawing; a lodestone, a magnet.
4. Chiefly in of adamant: an embodiment of impenetrable hardness; the quality of not being easily destroyed or overcome; impenetrableness, imperviousness, impregnableness; also, of a person: the quality of not being easily affected emotionally; impassiveness, unmovableness.

Example Sentences

As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead […]

Johan is determined to play the field and adamant about never committing.

Unprotected matter, however adamant, would have been ground to dust ages ago.

Most Panamanians are adamant that the canal, completed in 1914, will not return to U.S. control.

Word Forms

• adamaunt
• adamants

Synonyms for adamant

Depending on context, synonyms include impassivity, impenetrability, impregnability, unmovability, inexorable, intransigent.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include intransigent, inflexible, inexorable, adamantine, diamond, uncompromising.

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