adamant
/ˈæd.ə.mənt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.28 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
noun
An unspecified mineral or rock of virtually impenetrable hardness.
noun
An unspecified mineral or rock of virtually impenetrable hardness.
noun
An unspecified mineral or rock of virtually impenetrable hardness.
noun
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
- "Broiles and Kirkley were adamant about getting out of the lawsuit, but Mike and Dee were equally adamant about not wanting to sign a letter of apology"
- "Johan is determined to play the field and adamant about never committing."
- "What good would such foolishness do a mountain man? But Pa had been adamant. Just as he'd been adamant about their reading, writing, numbers, geography, and languages. Just as he'd been adamant about using proper grammar"
- "Most Panamanians are adamant that the canal, completed in 1914, will not return to U.S. control."
- "Unprotected matter, however adamant, would have been ground to dust ages ago."
- "This then is and alwayes hath ben the fashion of Worldlinges, & reprobate persons, to harden their hartes as an adamant stone, against anye thinge that shalbe tolde the for amendement of their lives, and for the savinge of their soules."
Etymology
From Middle English adamant, adamaunt, from Latin adamantem, accusative singular form of adamās (“hard as steel”), from Ancient Greek ἀδάμαντ- (adámant-, “invincible”), oblique stem of ἀδάμας (adámas). Doublet of diamond.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: adamant, adamantem, ἀδάμας
Usage
Inflected Forms
more adamant (comparative)
most adamant (superlative)
adamaunt (alternative, obsolete)
adamants (plural)