adamantine

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adj.

1. Made of or resembling adamant.

2. Having the hardness or luster of a diamond.

3. Unyielding; inflexible: "If there is one dominant trait that emerges from this account, it is adamantine willpower" (Eugene Linden).

adamantine [ˌædəˈmæntaɪn]

adj

1. very hard; unbreakable or unyielding

2. having the lustre of a diamond

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Adj.	1.	adamantine - consisting of or having the hardness of adamant
	2.	adamantine - having the hardness of a diamond hard - resisting weight or pressure
	3.	adamantine - impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; "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 tendency" adamant, intransigent, inexorable inflexible - incapable of change; "a man of inflexible purpose"

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adamantine [ˌædəˈmæntaɪn] ADJ → adamantino

adamantine

adj (liter, lit) → diamanten (liter); (fig) → hartnäckig

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adamant Cerusite inexorable intransigent	It is hooped round with a hollow cylinder of adamant, four feet yards in diameter, placed horizontally, and supported by eight adamantine feet, each six yards high. Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan View in context Here he was, talking like a gentleman at large who was free to come and go and roam about the world at pleasure, when that gallant coachmaker had vowed but the night before that Miss Varden held him bound in adamantine chains; and had positively stated in so many words that she was killing him by inches, and that in a fortnight more or thereabouts he expected to make a decent end and leave the business to his mother. Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty by Dickens, Charles View in context You may struggle nobly for twenty-four hours, maybe, if you are an adamantine sort of person, but in the mean time you will have been so wretchedly served, and so insolently, that you will haul down your colors, and go to impoverishing yourself with fees. A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context	adactylism adactylous adactyly Adad adage Adagial adagio Adak Adalia Adalia bipunctata Adam Adam Smith Adam's ale Adam's apple Adam's Bridge Adam's flannel Adam's needle Adam's needle-and-thread Adam's Peak Adam's-needle Adam-and-Eve adamance adamancy adamant Adamantean adamantine adamantly Adamawa Adamawa Massif Adambulacral Adamic Adamic earth Adamite Adamitism Adamov Adams Adams Walter Sydney Adams-Stokes syndrome adamsite Adana Adance Adangle Adansonia Adansonia digitata Adansonia gregorii Adapa Adapid Adapid group Adapin adapt adaptability	Adam, Adolphe Charles Adam, James Adam, Robert Adam, Robert Adam, Robert adam-and-eve ADAM-Like Protein ADAM-U Adam/Eve Principle ADAM/RAAM ADAM17 Adam7 Adamah Adamakegen Adamakha Adamakha adamance adamance adamance adamancy adamancy adamancy Adamandios Koraes adamant adamant adamant Adamantane Adamantanoid Adamantanone Adamantean adamantine adamantine drill adamantine membrane adamantine prisms adamantine prisms adamantine prisms Adamantine spar Adamantine spar Adamantine spar adamantinoma adamantinoma Adamantite Adamantite Adamantite adamantly adamantly adamantly adamantoblast adamantoblastoma adamantoblastoma Adamantoblasts Adamantoblasts Adamantoblasts adamantoma Adamantyl Adamar Adamar Adamard Adamas Nu Omega ADAMAT Adamatine

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adamant
Cerusite
inexorable
intransigent

It is hooped round with a hollow cylinder of adamant, four feet yards in diameter, placed horizontally, and supported by eight adamantine feet, each six yards high.

Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan View in context

Here he was, talking like a gentleman at large who was free to come and go and roam about the world at pleasure, when that gallant coachmaker had vowed but the night before that Miss Varden held him bound in adamantine chains; and had positively stated in so many words that she was killing him by inches, and that in a fortnight more or thereabouts he expected to make a decent end and leave the business to his mother.

Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty by Dickens, Charles View in context

You may struggle nobly for twenty-four hours, maybe, if you are an adamantine sort of person, but in the mean time you will have been so wretchedly served, and so insolently, that you will haul down your colors, and go to impoverishing yourself with fees.

A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context

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