| 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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