adamant
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Is adamant a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (said of people and their conviction) Firm; unshakeable; unyielding; determined.Examples: "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"; "Johan is determined to play the field and adamant about never committing."; "What good would such foolishness do a mountain man? But Pa had been adamant. Just as he'd been adamant about their reading, writing, numbers, geography, and languages. Just as he'd been adamant about using proper grammar"
2. (of an object) Very difficult to break, pierce, or cut.Examples: "Unprotected matter, however adamant, would have been ground to dust ages ago."
noun (English)
1. (archaic) A lodestone.Examples: "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."archaic
2. (obsolete or historical) A substance that neutralizes lodestones.Examples: "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 […]"; "But we know from book 37 of the Natural History that adamant works on magnets in exactly the same way that garlic does: robbing them of their power to attract."historicalobsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary