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adamant
What does adamant mean?
adamant (adjective): impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use adamant in a sentence?
- He is adamant in his refusal to change his mind. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce adamant?
/ˈædəmənt/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does adamant come from?
From Middle English adamant, adamaunt, from Latin adamantem, accusative singular form of adamās (“hard as steel”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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ordinary; not new; part of the mainstream culture
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impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason
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having brief brilliant points or flashes of light
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being or operating under the surface of the earth
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