hard+as+adamant
11adamant — [14] In Greek, adamas meant ‘unbreakable, invincible’. It was formed from the verb daman ‘subdue, break down’ (which came from the same source as English tame) plus the negative prefix a . It developed a noun usage as a ‘hard substance’,… …
12adamant — [14] In Greek, adamas meant ‘unbreakable, invincible’. It was formed from the verb daman ‘subdue, break down’ (which came from the same source as English tame) plus the negative prefix a . It developed a noun usage as a ‘hard substance’,… …
13adamant — adamancy /ad euh meuhn see/, adamance, n. adamantly, adv. /ad euh meuhnt, mant /, adj. 1. utterly unyielding in attitude or opinion in spite of all appeals, urgings, etc. 2. too hard to cut, break, or pierce. n. 3. any impenetrably or… …
14adamant — ad•a•mant [[t]ˈæd ə mənt, ˌmænt[/t]] adj. 1) utterly unyielding in attitude or opinion; inflexible 2) hard; adamantine 3) any unyieldingly hard substance 4) jew a legendary stone of impenetrable hardness, formerly sometimes identified with the… …
15hard — /hahrd/, adj., harder, hardest, adv., harder, hardest, n. adj. 1. not soft; solid and firm to the touch; unyielding to pressure and impenetrable or almost impenetrable. 2. firmly formed; tight: a hard knot. 3. difficult to do or accomplish;… …
16hard — Synonyms and related words: Herculean, Philistine, about, absolute, abstruse, accented, acerb, acerbic, acrid, acrimonious, actively, acute, adamant, adamantine, addictive, adverse, afflictive, agonizing, agonizingly, alcoholic, all but, almost,… …
17adamant — adj 1. flinty, stonelike, rock, rock hard, hard as rock, adamantine; impenetrable; unbreakable, infrangible, imperishable, indestructable. 2. immovable, inflexible, rigid, stiff, firm, unshakeable, obdurate, inexorable, intractable, unyielding,… …
18adamant — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French, from Latin adamant , adamas hardest metal, diamond, from Greek Date: 14th century 1. a stone (as a diamond) formerly believed to be of impenetrable hardness 2. an unbreakable or extremely hard …
19adamant — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. adamantine, hard; inflexible, immovable, firm. See hardness, obstinacy. Ant., easygoing; yielding. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. fixed, inflexible, set, settled; see inflexible , resolute 2 . See… …
20adamant — adj. & n. adj. stubbornly resolute; resistant to persuasion. n. archaic diamond or other hard substance. Derivatives: adamance n. adamantine adj. adamantly adv. Etymology: OF adamaunt f. L adamas adamant untameable f. Gk (as A (1), damao to tame) …
