ADAMANT, n. A mineral frequently found beneath a corset. Soluble in solicitate of gold.

Source: THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)
 

Adamant \Ad"a*mant\ ([a^]d"[.a]*m[a^]nt), n. [OE. adamaunt, adamant, diamond, magnet, OF. adamant, L. adamas, adamantis, the hardest metal, fr. Gr. 'ada`mas, -antos; 'a priv. + dama^,n to tame, subdue. In OE., from confusion with L. adamare to love, be attached to, the word meant also magnet, as in OF. and LL. See Diamond, Tame.]

1. A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness. [1913 Webster]

Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield. --Milton. [1913 Webster]

2. Lodestone; magnet. [Obs.]

"A great adamant of acquaintance." --Bacon. [1913 Webster]

As true to thee as steel to adamant. --Greene. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

75 Moby Thesaurus words for "adamant": adamantine, at a standstill, cast-iron, dour, firm, flintlike, flinty, frozen, granitelike, granitic, grim, hard, hard-core, immobile, immotile, immotive, immovable, immutable, implacable, impliable, inductile, inelastic, inexorable, inextensible, inextensile, inextensional, inflexible, intractable, intractile, intransigent, iron, irreconcilable, irremovable, irresilient, lithic, marblelike, nonelastic, nonstretchable, obdurate, pat, petrified, petrogenic, relentless, rigid, rigorous, rock, rock-ribbed, slaty, standpat, stationary, steely, stern, stiff, stone, stubborn, unaffected, unalterable, unbending, unchangeable, uncompromising, unextendible, unextensible, unflexible, ungiving, unlimber, unmalleable, unmovable, unmoved, unmoving, unpliable, unpliant, unrelenting, unswayable, untractable, unyielding

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adamant adj : not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course; unsusceptible to persuasion; "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 tendancy" [syn: adamantine, inexorable, intransigent]

noun

very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem [syn: diamond]

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

Adamant \Ad"a*mant\ ([a^]d"[.a]*m[a^]nt), n. [OE. adamaunt, adamant, diamond, magnet, OF. adamant, L. adamas, adamantis, the hardest metal, fr. Gr. 'ada`mas, -antos; 'a priv. + dama^,n to tame, subdue. In OE., from confusion with L. adamare to love, be attached to, the word meant also magnet, as in OF. and LL. See Diamond, Tame.]

1. A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness.

Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield. --Milton.

2. Lodestone; magnet. [Obs.]

``A great adamant of acquaintance.'' --Bacon.

As true to thee as steel to adamant. --Greene.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)