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The definition of adamant is someone who will never change his mind, or something that will never be changed.

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A person who will not compromise is an example of an adamant person.
An unchanging belief that God exists is an example of an adamant belief.

See adamant in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

in ancient times, a hard stone or substance that was supposedly unbreakable
Old Poet. unbreakable hardness

Origin: ME & OFr < L adamas (gen. adamantis), the hardest metal < Gr adamas (gen. adamantos) < a-, not + daman, to subdue: see tame

adjective

too hard to be broken
not giving in or relenting; unyielding

Related Forms:

adamantly adverb

See adamant in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective

Impervious to pleas, appeals, or reason; stubbornly unyielding. See Synonyms at inflexible.

noun

A stone once believed to be impenetrable in its hardness.
An extremely hard substance.

Origin:

Origin: From Middle English, a hard precious stone

Origin: , from Old French adamaunt

Origin: , from Latin adamās, adamant-

Origin: , from Greek, unconquerable, hard steel, diamond; see demə- in Indo-European roots

Related Forms:

adˈa·man·cy noun

adˈa·mant·ly adverb

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