| 单词 | adamantine |
| 释义 | adamantine (once / 10765 pages) adj Something adamantine is unbreakable. Adamantine is often used in a figurative way. If you’re bound by adamantine chains, get comfy because you’re not breaking free! When someone is adamant, she won't budge or yield. Anything adamantine is pretty much unbreakable and invulnerable. Adamantine substances also tend to be bright and shiny like diamonds. When used figuratively, adamantine can describe something unbreakable, like the adamantine will of a marathon runner. WORD FAMILYadamantine: adamantinely USAGE EXAMPLESIts adamantine perfection is the perfectly unstable embodiment of a moment of unendurable consciousness—of an ideal that was still awaiting its transformative action. The New Yorker(Dec 19, 2016) It may be Mr. van Hove’s intention to show that even the most adamantine souls can be brought wailing to their knees by life’s blows. New York Times(Sep 27, 2015) “The haunting begins at midnight,” said the girl with the adamantine chin. Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior(1976) 1adj consisting of or having the hardness of adamant 2adj having the hardness of a diamond Syn hard resisting weight or pressure 3adj impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason Syn adamant, inexorable, intransigent inflexible incapable of change |
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