different between ruthless vs adamant

English

Etymology

From Middle English reuþeles; equivalent to ruth +? -less.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??u??l?s/

Adjective

ruthless (comparative more ruthless, superlative most ruthless)

1. Without pity or compassion; cruel, pitiless.

   Antonym: ruthful

   • 1725, Alexander Pope et al. (translators), Homer (author), The Odyssey of Homer, Volume I, Bernard Lintot, page 10:

     At length their rage the ho?tile Pow’rs re?train, / All but the ruthle?s Monarch of the Main.

Related terms

• ruthlessness

Translations

Anagrams

• Selhurst, hurtless, hustlers, sluthers

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.