adamant

adjective

/ˈædəmənt/

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单词	adamant
释义	adamant adjective /ˈædəmənt/ /ˈædəmənt/ jump to other results determined not to change your mind or to be persuaded about something Eva was adamant that she would not come. The government remained adamant that there was no more money available. Oxford Collocations DictionaryAdamant is used with these nouns: refusal See full entry Word OriginOld English (as a noun), from Old French adamaunt-, via Latin from Greek adamas, adamant-, ‘untameable, invincible’ (later used to denote the hardest metal or stone, hence diamond), from a- ‘not’ + daman ‘to tame’.
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