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adamantine

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ad·a·man·tine  (d-mntn, -tn, -tn)
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
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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.adamantineadamantine - 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"
Translations
adamantine [ˌædəˈmæntaɪn] ADJ → adamantino
adamantine
adj (liter, lit) → diamanten (liter); (fig) → hartnäckig


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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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