adamantine

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Made of adamant (“an unspecified mineral or rock of virtually impenetrable hardness”).

   “[A]t laſt appeer / Hell bounds high reaching to the horrid Roof, / And thrice threefold the Gates; three folds vvere Braſs, / Three iron, three of Adamantine Rock, / Impenitrable, impal'd vvith circling fire, / Yet unconsum'd.”

2. sıfat Incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; impenetrable, unbreakable.

   “adamantine bonds    adamantine chains”

3. sıfat Difficult to defeat or prevail over; unshakable, unyielding.

   “For two hours they stand; [François Claude Amour, marquis de] Bouillé's sword glittering in his hand, adamantine resolution clouding his brows; […]”

4. sıfat Of a person: refusing to change one's mind; obstinate, stubborn.

   “I thought this last information would soften the young man, but he was adamantine. He informed me that it was against all bank rules for a woman to draw from her husband's deposit without his order.”

5. sıfat Having the quality of attracting or drawing; attractive, magnetic.

   “Embravvne your ſoft-skind encloſure vvith Adamantine duſt, that it may dravve nothing but ſteele vnto it.”

6. sıfat Like diamond in lustre; bright, lustrous, shiny; also, of a lustre: like that of a mineral with a high refractive index such as diamond.

   “Raspite, a new dimorphous form of lead tungstate, is found on some of the stolzite specimens as brownish or yellow monoclinic crystals with a strong adamantine lustre.”

7. isim Synonym of adamantium (“a fictional metal which is indestructible or nearly so”).