|
adamant 音标拼音: ['ædəmənt] n. 坚硬的东西
a. 非常坚硬的 坚硬的东西非常坚硬的 adamant adj 1: impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; " he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind"; " Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him"- W. Churchill; " an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency" [ synonym: { adamant}, { adamantine}, { inexorable}, { intransigent}] n 1: very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem [ synonym: { diamond}, { adamant}] Adamant \ Ad" a* mant\ ([ a^] d"[. a]* m[ a^] nt), n. [ OE. adamaunt, adamant, diamond, magnet, OF. adamant, L. adamas, adamantis, the hardest metal, fr. Gr. ' ada` mas, - antos; ' a priv. dama^, n to tame, subdue. In OE., from confusion with L. adamare to love, be attached to, the word meant also magnet, as in OF. and LL. See { Diamond}, { Tame}.] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster] Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Lodestone; magnet. [ Obs.] " A great adamant of acquaintance." -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] As true to thee as steel to adamant. -- Greene. [ 1913 Webster] 75 Moby Thesaurus words for " adamant": 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, inelastic, inexorable, inextensible, inextensile, inextensional, inflexible, intractable, intractile, intransigent, iron, irreconcilable, irremovable, irresilient, lithic, marblelike, nonelastic, nonstretchable, obdurate, pat, petrified, petrogenic, relentless, rigid, rigorous, rock, rock- ribbed, slaty, standpat, stationary, steely, stern, stiff, stone, stubborn, unaffected, unalterable, unbending, unchangeable, uncompromising, unextendible, unextensible, unflexible, ungiving, unlimber, unmalleable, unmovable, unmoved, unmoving, unpliable, unpliant, unrelenting, unswayable, untractable, unyielding |
安装中文字典英文字典查询工具!
中文字典英文字典工具:
英文字典中文字典相关资料:
|