adamantine

/,ædə'mæntain/

Thân thiện

Her resolve was adamantine in the face of all appeals.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Extremely hard and unbreakable: Having the hardness or durability of a diamond or similar substance.
   • Unyielding and inflexible in attitude or opinion: Impervious to persuasion, requests, or reason; stubbornly determined.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • The vault was secured with an adamantine door. (The vault was secured with an extremely hard, unbreakable door.)
  • Despite the pressure, the leader remained adamantine in her decision. (Despite the pressure, the leader remained utterly unyielding in her decision.)

Advanced Usage

• "adamantine will/resolve": An unbreakable, firm determination.
  • Her adamantine resolve saw the project through to completion. (Her unbreakable determination ensured the project was completed.)
• "adamantine hardness": A quality of extreme physical hardness.
  • Scientists are researching materials with adamantine hardness for industrial use. (Scientists are researching materials with diamond-like hardness for industrial use.)

Variants and Related Words

• Adamant (adj): Unyielding; refusing to be persuaded. (This is the more common form for describing an unyielding attitude).
  • He was adamant that he was right.
• Adamantly (adv): In an utterly unyielding manner.
  • She adamantly refused the offer.

Synonyms

• Inflexible: Unwilling to change or compromise.
• Inexorable: Impossible to stop or prevent; unyielding.
• Intransigent: Unwilling to change one's views or agree about something.
• Unbending: Not yielding; inflexible.
• Diamond-hard: Having the extreme hardness of a diamond.

Antonyms

• Yielding: Giving way under pressure; compliant.
• Flexible: Ready and able to change; adaptable.
• Pliable: Easily bent or influenced.
• Malleable: Easily influenced; pliable.

Notes on Meaning

• The first meaning (extremely hard) is literal and often used in scientific, technical, or poetic contexts to describe physical properties.
• The second meaning (unyielding in attitude) is figurative and describes a person's character or resolve. In modern usage, adamant is far more common for this figurative sense, while adamantine can sound more literary or formal.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; she would have none of him"- W.Churchill
   • he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind
   • Cynthia was inexorable
   • an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency
2. having the hardness of a diamond
3. consisting of or having the hardness of adamant

Từ đồng nghĩa

• adamant
• inexorable
• intransigent