Australian English Meaning of adamant

adamant

Other Australian English words related to adamant

synonyms

• hardened
• steadfast
• stubborn
• adamantine
• stubborn
• determined
• determined
• hard
• hardheaded
• tough-nosed
• headstrong
• unmoving
• relentless
• unyielding
• intransigent
• obstinate
• obstinate
• obsessive
• stubborn
• Opinionated
• Ossified
• pat
• persistent
• Persistent
• perverse
• pig-headed
• relentless
• strict
• inflexible
• uncompromising
• relentless
• unyielding
• wilful
• willful
• bloody-minded
• cantankerous
• confirmed
• contrary
• contumacious
• cursed
• defiant
• demanding
• disobedient
• demanding
• firm
• froward
• Hard line
• hard-shelled
• hard-shelled
• hell-bent
• Traditionalist
• invincible
• indomitable
• inexorable
• insubordinate
• insurgent
• intractable
• inveterate
• Invincible
• Iron
• rebellious
• Narrow-minded
• recalcitrant
• refractory
• Resolved
• rigid
• Egocentric
• self-willed
• set
• severe
• single-minded
• stern
• Stiff-necked
• stouthearted
• tenacious
• unconquerable
• uncooperative
• unflinching
• Ungovernable
• unmanageable
• unruly
• wayward
• wrongheaded
• Deaf to reason

antonyms

• Accepting
• acquiescent
• agreeable
• Amenable
• compatible
• docile
• flexible
• obedient
• pliable
• pliable
• receptive
• responsive
• submissive
• willing
• yielding
• compliant
• manageable
• placable
• reasonable
• surrendering
• tractable
• Governable
• persuadable
• slavish
• subservient
• temperate

Definitions and Meaning of adamant in English

Wordnet

adamant (n)

very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem

Wordnet

adamant (s)

impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason

Webster

adamant (n.)

A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness.

Lodestone; magnet.

FAQs About the word adamant

What is the Australian English meaning of the word adamant

adamant

What is the English meaning of the word adamant

very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem, impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reasonA stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a

What are the synonyms of the word adamant

hardened,steadfast,stubborn,adamantine,stubborn,determined,determined,hard,hardheaded,tough-nosed

What are the antonyms of the word adamant

Accepting,acquiescent,agreeable,Amenable,compatible,docile,flexible,obedient,pliable,pliable