English Dictionary

adamant

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈæd.ə.mənt/

名詞

廃用

An imaginary rock or mineral of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness. / An embodiment of impregnable hardness. / (obsolete) A lodestone.

日本語の意味

（架空の）侵入不可能な硬さを持つ岩石または鉱物、主にダイヤモンドなど極端な硬度の物質を指す名称 / 侵しがたい硬さや堅牢さの体現物 / （古語）磁石、特に磁力を示す鉱物

The explorers unearthed a vein of adamant that dulled even the sharpest drills.

探検家たちは、どんなに鋭いドリルでも刃を鈍らせるほどの、想像上の非常に硬い鉱石の鉱脈を掘り当てた。

意味（1）

An imaginary rock or mineral of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness.

This then is and alwayes hath ben the fashion of Worldlinges, & reprobate persons, to harden their hartes as an adamant stone, against anye thinge that shalbe tolde the for amendement of their lives, and for the savinge of their soules.

意味（2）

An embodiment of impregnable hardness.

Actual life might seem to her so real that she could not detect the union of shadow and adamant that men call poetry.

意味（3）

(obsolete) A lodestone.

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.

adamants （ plural ）