ADJECTIVE | all | adamant, adamantine, inexorable, intransigent | impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason |
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NOUN | substance | adamant, diamond | very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem |
Sounds | ae'dahmahnt | |
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Rhymes | abandonment ... wonderment: 671 rhymes with ahnt... |
Meaning | impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason. | |
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Example | "he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind" | |
Synonyms | adamantine, inexorable, intransigent | |
Broader | inflexible | incapable of change |
Spanish | firme, inexorable, inflexible, intransigente | |
Catalan | inexorable, inflexible, intransigent | |
Nouns | adamance | resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible |
Adverbs | adamantly | inflexibly |
Meaning | Very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem. | |
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Synonym | diamond | |
Narrower | carbonado, black diamond | An inferior dark diamond used in industry for drilling and polishing |
Broader | carbon, C, atomic number 6 | An abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms |
transparent gem | A gemstone having the property of transmitting light without serious diffusion | |
Spanish | diamante | |
Catalan | diamant | |
Adjectives | adamantine | consisting of or having the hardness of adamant |
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