English-Thai Dictionary

adamant

ADJ แน่วแน่  ใจแข็ง  ยืนกราน  inflexible naeo-nae

 

adamant

N หิน ใน ตำนาน ที่ มี ความแข็ง มาก  hin-nai-tam-nan ti-mee-khwam-khaeng-mak

 

adamantine

A ใจแข็ง  jai-kang

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ADAMANT

n.[Gr. ; L. adamas; a word of Celtic origin. ] A very hard or impenetrable stone; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness. The name has often been given to the load stone; but in modern mineralogy, it has no technical signification.

 

ADAMANTEAN

a.Hard as adamant.

 

ADAMANTINE

a.Made of adamant; having the qualities of adamant; that cannot be broken, dissolved, or penetrated, as adamantine bonds, or chains. Adamantine Spar, a genus of earths, of three varieties. The color of the first is gray, with shades of brown or green; the form when regular, a hexangular prism, two sides large and four small, without a pyramid; its surface striated, and with a thin covering of white mica, interspersed with particles of red felspar; its fracture, foliaceous and sparry. The second variety is whiter, and the texture more foliaceous. The third variety is of a reddish brown color. This stone is very hard, and of difficult fusion.
A variety of corrundum.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

ADAMANT

Ad "a *mant, n. Etym: [OE. adamaunt, adamant, diamond, magnet, OF. adamant, L. adamas, adamantis, the hardest metal, fr. Gr. 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 substance of extreme hardness; but in modern minerology 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.

 

ADAMANTEAN

Ad `a *man *te "an, a. Etym: [L. adamanteus.]

 

Defn: Of adamant; hard as adamant. Milton.

 

ADAMANTINE

Ad `a *man "tine, a. Etym: [L. adamantinus, Gr.

 

1. Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains.

 

2. (Min. )

 

Defn: Like the diamond in hardness or luster.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

adamant

ad a mant |ˈadəmənt ˈædəmənt | ▶adjective refusing to be persuaded or to change one's mind: he is adamant that he is not going to resign. ▶noun archaic a legendary rock or mineral to which many, often contradictory, properties were attributed, formerly associated with diamond or lodestone. DERIVATIVES ad a mance noun, ad a man cy |-mənsē |noun, ad a mant ly adverb ORIGIN Old English (as a noun ), from Old French adamaunt-, via Latin from Greek adamas, adamant, ‘untamable, invincible ’ (later used to denote the hardest metal or stone, hence diamond ), from a- ‘not ’ + daman ‘to tame. ’ The phrase to be adamant dates from the 1930s, although adjectival use had been implied in such collocations as “an adamant heart ” since the 16th cent.

 

adamantine

ad a man tine |ˌadəˈmanˌtīn, -tin-, -ˌtēn ˌædəˈmænˌtaɪn | ▶adjective literary unbreakable: adamantine chains | figurative : her adamantine will.

 

Oxford Dictionary

adamant

ad ¦am |ant |ˈadəm (ə )nt | ▶adjective refusing to be persuaded or to change one's mind: he is adamant that he is not going to resign. ▶noun [ mass noun ] archaic a legendary rock or mineral to which many properties were attributed, formerly associated with diamond or lodestone. DERIVATIVES adamance noun, adamancy noun, adamantly adverb ORIGIN Old English (as a noun ), from Old French adamaunt-, via Latin from Greek adamas, adamant-, ‘untameable, invincible ’ (later used to denote the hardest metal or stone, hence diamond ), from a- ‘not ’ + daman ‘to tame ’. The phrase to be adamant dates from the 1930s, although adjectival use had been implied in such collocations as ‘an adamant heart ’ since the 16th cent.

 

adamantine

adamantine |ˌadəˈmantʌɪn | ▶adjective literary unable to be broken: adamantine chains | figurative : her adamantine will.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

adamant

adamant adjective he begged his mother to let him try out for the football team, but she was adamant: unshakable, immovable, inflexible, unwavering, unswerving, uncompromising, insistent, resolute, resolved, determined, firm, steadfast; stubborn, unrelenting, diehard, unyielding, unbending, rigid, obdurate, inexorable, intransigent, (dead ) set.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

adamant

adamant adjective scientists are adamant about the absence of risk: unshakeable, immovable, inflexible, unwavering, uncompromising, resolute, resolved, determined, firm, rigid, steadfast; unswerving, stubborn, unrelenting, unyielding, unbending, obdurate, inexorable, intransigent, dead set, iron-willed, strong-willed, steely; N. Amer. rock-ribbed; informal stiff-necked; rare indurate. ANTONYMS unsure.

 

Duden Dictionary

Adamantin

Ada man tin Substantiv, Neutrum Medizin , das |Adamant i n |das Adamantin; Genitiv: des Adamantins griechisch-lateinisch Zahnschmelz

 

Adamantinom

Ada man ti nom Substantiv, Neutrum Medizin , das |Adamantin o m |das Adamantinom; Genitiv: des Adamantinoms, Plural: die Adamantinome Kiefergeschwulst

 

Adamantoblast

Ada man to blast Substantiv, maskulin Medizin , der |Adamantobl a st |der Adamantoblast; Genitiv: des Adamantoblasten, Plural: die Adamantoblasten Zelle, die den Zahnschmelz bildet

 

French Dictionary

adamantin

adamantin , ine adj. adjectif littéraire Qui a l ’éclat du diamant.

 

Spanish Dictionary

adamantino, -na

adamantino, -na adjetivo formal Que tiene una o más características propias del diamante .SINÓNIMO diamantino .

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

adamant

ad a mant /ǽdəmənt /〖原義は 名詞 〗形容詞 ｟かたく ｠〖通例be ～〗 «…だと /…を » 断固 (として )主張する «that 節 /about » ; 〈人が 〉断固たる態度 [決意 ]で ; «…を » 断固として譲らない [変えない ] «about » ; 断固として «…する » «in do ing » ; 〈人が 〉 «…に対して » 動じない «to » ; 意志堅固な .名詞 U ｟まれ ｠きわめてかたい物 ; ｟古 ｠アダマント 〘ダイヤモンドとも言われた伝説上のかたい石 〙.á d a man cy 名詞 ～ly 副詞 断固として, 頑固に .