adamant

ad·a·mant

A0075800 (ăd′ə-mənt, -mănt′)adj. Not willing to change one's opinion, purpose, or principles; unyielding.n.1. A stone once believed to be impenetrable in its hardness.2. An extremely hard substance.

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[From Middle English, a hard precious stone, from Old French adamaunt, from Latin adamās, adamant-, from Greek, unconquerable, hard steel, diamond; see demə- in Indo-European roots.]

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ad′a·mance, ad′a·man·cy n.ad′a·mant·ly adv.

adamant

(ˈædəmənt) adj1. unshakable in purpose, determination, or opinion; unyielding2. a less common word for adamantine¹n3. any extremely hard or apparently unbreakable substance4. (European Myth & Legend) a legendary stone said to be impenetrable, often identified with the diamond or loadstone[Old English: from Latin adamant-, stem of adamas, from Greek; literal meaning perhaps: unconquerable, from a-¹ + daman to tame, conquer] ˈadamantly adv

ad•a•mant

(ˈæd ə mənt, -ˌmænt)

adj. 1. utterly unyielding in attitude or opinion; inflexible. 2. hard; adamantine. n. 3. any unyieldingly hard substance. 4. a legendary stone of impenetrable hardness, formerly sometimes identified with the diamond. [1350–1400; < Old French adamaunt < Latin adamant-, adamas hard metal, diamond < Greek] ad•a•man•cy (ˈæd ə mən si) ad`a•mance, n. ad′a•mant•ly, adv.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	adamant - very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gemdiamondatomic number 6, carbon, C - an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compoundsblack diamond, carbonado - an inferior dark diamond used in industry for drilling and polishingtransparent gem - a gemstone having the property of transmitting light without serious diffusion
Adj.	1.	adamant - 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"intransigent, inexorable, adamantineinflexible - incapable of change; "a man of inflexible purpose"

adamant

adjective determined, firm, fixed, stiff, rigid, set, relentless, stubborn, uncompromising, insistent, resolute, inflexible, unrelenting, inexorable, unyielding, intransigent, immovable, unbending, obdurate, unshakable The minister is adamant that he will not resign.
yielding, compromising, flexible, susceptible, responsive, receptive, easy-going, lax, compliant, pliant, tensile, tractable

adamant

adjectiveFirmly, often unreasonably immovable in purpose or will:adamantine, brassbound, die-hard, grim, implacable, incompliant, inexorable, inflexible, intransigent, iron, obdurate, relentless, remorseless, rigid, stubborn, unbendable, unbending, uncompliant, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding.Idiom: stubborn as a mule.

Translations

不动摇的

adamant

(ˈӕdəmənt) adjective determined or insistent. an adamant refusal. 堅定的 不动摇的