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/ˈædɐmˌɑːntiːn/
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ADJECTIVE
- having the hardness of a diamond
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impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason
an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency
Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him
he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind - consisting of or having the hardness of adamant
How To Use adamantine In A Sentence
- Gem varieties include topazolite, similar in color and transparency to topaz; demantoid, a green variety with a high dispersion and adamantine luster, sometimes miscalled olivine and Uralian emerald; and black melanite.
- Even when, later still, the general's eager hand, stretching forth for the dusky flagon (it was sacrilege to sweep away those insignia of age and respectability), managed to capsize the candelabrum and sent the fluid "adamantine" spattering a treasured table-cloth (how quick the dash of the young trooper's hand upon the flame -- and its extinction!), a gentle smile was the sole rebuke, followed by a "Thank you, Mr. Harris. Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War
- Most natural corundum is of industrial quality, but transparent to translucent varieties with their adamantine to vitreous luster potentially yield gemstones.
- Danlo's natural nobility and his adamantine resolve not to hate seemed only to frustrate Pedar. THE BROKEN GOD
- Danlo's natural nobility and his adamantine resolve not to hate seemed only to frustrate Pedar. THE BROKEN GOD
- Genius, devotion, and courage; the adornments of his mind, and the energies of his soul, all exerted to their uttermost stretch, could not roll back one hair's breadth the wheel of time's chariot; that which had been was written with the adamantine pen of reality, on the everlasting volume of the past; nor could agony and tears suffice to wash out one iota from the act fulfilled. I.8
- Naturally, the minor speculators throughout the city — those who had expected to make a fortune out of this crash — raged and complained, but, being faced by an adamantine exchange directorate, a subservient press, and the alliance between the big bankers and the heavy quadrumvirate, there was nothing to be done. The Titan
- Azurite's luster is vitreous to almost adamantine.
- A FRIEND WITH WHOM I HAVE A DAILY CORRESPONDENCE takes great pleasure in needling me on my, shall we say, adamantine position that we need to start fighting the First Terrorist War to win it and not as if we are engaged in a game of patty-cake. Think Progress » Sen. Lamar Alexander ♥ David Horowitz
- Here is Prometheus, the rebel: nail him to the rock; secure him on this towering summit fast in the unyielding grip of adamantine chains.
