adamantine (adj.)

  1. consisting of or having the hardness of adamant

  2. having the hardness of a diamond

  3. 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

    [ Syn: adamant , inexorable , intransigent ]

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