different between adamant vs diehard

English

Alternative forms

• adamaunt (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English adamant, adamaunt, from Latin adamantem, accusative singular form of adam?s (“hard as steel”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (adámas, “invincible”), from ?- (a-, “not”) + ?????? (damáz?, “I tame”) or of Semitic origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ.d?.m?nt/, /?æ.d?.mænt/

Adjective

adamant (comparative more adamant, superlative most adamant)

1. (said of people and their conviction) Firm; unshakeable; unyielding; determined.
2. (of an object) Very difficult to break, pierce, or cut.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:obstinate

Translations

References

• adamant at OneLook Dictionary Search

Noun

adamant (plural adamants)

1. An imaginary rock or mineral of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness.
2. An embodiment of impregnable hardness.
   • 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, XV [Uniform ed., p. 163]:

     Actual life might seem to her so real that she could not detect the union of shadow and adamant that men call poetry.

3. (obsolete) A lodestone.
   • 1594–96, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream:

     You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant:

     But yet you draw not iron, for all my heart

     Is true as steel. Leave you your power to draw,

     And I shall have no power to follow you.

Translations

Derived terms

References

• adamant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Cornish

Etymology

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?adamant/

Noun

adamant m (plural adamantow)

1. The mineral, diamond
2. A gemstone made from diamond.

Irish

Noun

adamant f (genitive singular adamainte, nominative plural adamaintí)

1. Alternative form of adhmaint (“adamant, lodestone; magnet”)

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• "adamant" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Latin

Verb

adamant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of adam?

Middle English

Alternative forms

• athamaunt, adamaunt, adamawnte, adamaunde, ademand

Etymology

From Latin adamantem, accusative of adam?s, from Ancient Greek ?????? (adámas). Compare adamas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ad?mant/, /?ad?mau?nt/

Noun

adamant (plural adamants)

1. adamant, adamantine (valuable gemstone)
2. An invulnerable or indomitable object
3. A natural magnet; magnetite.

Related terms

• adamantine

Descendants

• English: adamant
• Scots: adamant (obsolete)

References

• “adama(u)nt, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-11.

English

Alternative forms

• die-hard

Etymology

From the verb phrase die hard.

Pronunciation

Adjective

diehard (comparative more diehard, superlative most diehard)

1. Unreasonably or stubbornly resisting change.
2. Fanatically opposing progress or reform.
3. Complete; having no opposite opinion of anything in a particular topic of one's values; thorough of in one's beliefs.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:obstinate

Translations

Noun

diehard (plural diehards)

1. A person with such an attitude.

Translations

Anagrams

• dihedra