adamant

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Firm; unshakeable; unyielding; determined.

   “Broiles and Kirkley were adamant about getting out of the lawsuit, but Mike and Dee were equally adamant about not wanting to sign a letter of apology”

2. sıfat Very difficult to break, pierce, or cut.

   “Unprotected matter, however adamant, would have been ground to dust ages ago.”

3. isim An unspecified mineral or rock of virtually impenetrable hardness.

   “This then is and alwayes hath ben the fashion of Worldlinges, & reprobate persons, to harden their hartes as an adamant stone, against anye thinge that shalbe tolde the for amendement of their lives, and for the savinge of their soules.”

4. isim In later use: diamond.
5. isim In later use: a lodestone.

   “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.”

6. isim A substance that neutralizes lodestones.

   “An Adamant hinders the attractive vertue, as also Garlick rubbed on the Magnet; for its attractive faculty is not so valid, but it may be easily deluded, obscured, and superated […]”

7. isim Chiefly in of adamant: an embodiment of impenetrable hardness; the quality of not being easily destroyed or overcome; impenetrableness, imperviousness, impregnableness; also, of a person: the quality of not being easily affected emotionally; impassiveness, unmovableness.

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

8. isim A person or thing having the quality of attracting or drawing; a lodestone, a magnet.