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单词 adamant
释义
adamant
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nadj

If you stubbornly refuse to change your mind about something, you are adamant about it.
This word's story begins in ancient Greece, where philosophers spoke about a legendary unbreakable stone or metal they called adamas (literally, "invincible"). In English, people began to use the word to refer to something that cannot be altered, and then in the twentieth century — after adamant had been in English for about a thousand years — it came to be used as an adjective to mean "unyielding as stone." If you're adamant about something, no amount of persuasion is going to convince you otherwise.
WORD FAMILY
adamant: adamance, adamantly, adamants
USAGE EXAMPLES
Roof also was adamant that a transcript of a hearing where he was found mentally competent not be released to the public.
Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017)
After practice on Wednesday, Bozzella was adamant about the need for women’s basketball to break through on television channels already oversaturated with college basketball.
New York Times(Dec 30, 2016)
“He is adamant that before he dies, he wants to revive interest in the family, to get Thibaw’s reputation revised.”
The Guardian(Dec 29, 2016)
1n very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
diamond
black diamond, carbonado
an inferior dark diamond used in industry for drilling and polishing
C, atomic number 6, carbon
an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds
transparent gem
a gemstone having the property of transmitting light without serious diffusion
2adj impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason
he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind
Syn
adamantine, inexorable, intransigent
inflexible
incapable of change
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