MEANING
1. Exceptionally hard or resistant, often in legendary or literary descriptions of materials.
2. Exceptionally firm and resistant to persuasion or pressure.
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- adamantine gate
- adamantine surface
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The tale described an adamantine gate.
No ordinary tool could mark the adamantine surface.
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Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more adamantine; superlative most adamantine where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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