Usually means: Firmly determined; not yielding easily.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. adamant: Merriam-Webster
  2. adamant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. adamant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. adamant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. adamant: Vocabulary.com
  6. Adamant, adamant: Wordnik
  7. adamant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. adamant: Wiktionary
  9. adamant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. adamant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. adamant: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Adamant, adamant: Dictionary.com
  13. adamant (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. adamant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Adamant (Album), Adamant (album), Adamant (disambiguation), Adamant (ship), Adamant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Adamant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. adamant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. adamant: Rhymezone
  19. adamant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. adamant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. adamant: FreeDictionary.org
  22. adamant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. adamant: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. adamant: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  25. adamant: Merriam-Webster

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  1. adamant-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

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  1. adamant: Legal dictionary

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  1. adamant: Encyclopedia

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  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Adamant: Easton Bible
  2. Adamant: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adamant: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (said of people and their conviction) Firm; unshakeable; unyielding; determined.
adjective:  (of an object) Very difficult to break, pierce, or cut.
noun:  An imaginary rock or mineral of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness.
noun:  An embodiment of impregnable hardness.
noun:  (archaic) A lodestone.
noun:  (obsolete or historical) A substance that neutralizes lodestones.

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