adamant

adamant has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• n.. A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness.
• n.. Lodestone; magnet.
• n.. very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem
• a.. 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"