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  • 31adamant — adjective he begged his mother to let him try out for the football team, but she was adamant Syn: unshakable, immovable, inflexible, unwavering, unswerving, uncompromising, insistent, resolute, resolved, determined, firm, steadfast; stubborn,… …

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  • 32adamant — [ˈædəmənt] adj determined not to change a belief or decision He was adamant that he was right.[/ex] adamantly adv …

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  • 33adamant — ad•a•mant [[t]ˈæd ə mənt, ˌmænt[/t]] adj. 1) utterly unyielding in attitude or opinion; inflexible 2) hard; adamantine 3) any unyieldingly hard substance 4) jew a legendary stone of impenetrable hardness, formerly sometimes identified with the… …

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  • 34adamant — /ˈædəmənt / (say aduhmuhnt) adjective 1. firm in purpose or opinion; unyielding. 2. hard as adamant; adamantine. –noun 3. (in ancient times) some impenetrably hard substance, variously identified later as the diamond or the lodestone. {Latin… …

  • 35adamant — adj. & n. adj. stubbornly resolute; resistant to persuasion. n. archaic diamond or other hard substance. Derivatives: adamance n. adamantine adj. adamantly adv. Etymology: OF adamaunt f. L adamas adamant untameable f. Gk (as A (1), damao to tame) …

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  • 36Torre Adamant — Adamant Lofts/Torre Puebla Edificio Localización San Andrés Cholula, Puebla  México …

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  • 37Adamant —    (Heb. shamir), Ezek. 3:9. The Greek word adamas means diamond. This stone is not referred to, but corundum or some kind of hard steel. It is an emblem of firmness in resisting adversaries of the truth (Zech. 7:12), and of hard heartedness… …

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  • 38adamant — Synonyms and related words: adamantine, at a standstill, cast iron, dour, firm, flintlike, flinty, frozen, granitelike, granitic, grim, hard, hard core, immobile, immotile, immotive, immovable, immutable, implacable, impliable, inductile,… …

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  • 39Adamant — Stålhård, af stål, ubønhørlig …

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  • 40adamánt — s. n., pl. adamánte …

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