hard+as+adamant
21Adamant — (Heb. shamir), Ezek. 3:9. The Greek word adamas means diamond. This stone is not referred to, but corundum or some kind of hard steel. It is an emblem of firmness in resisting adversaries of the truth (Zech. 7:12), and of hard heartedness… …
22adamant — Synonyms and related words: adamantine, at a standstill, cast iron, dour, firm, flintlike, flinty, frozen, granitelike, granitic, grim, hard, hard core, immobile, immotile, immotive, immovable, immutable, implacable, impliable, inductile,… …
23hard core — Synonyms and related words: adamant, adamantine, ardent, cast iron, dour, fanatic, fiery, firm, flaming, flinty, grim, hard, heated, hot, hotheaded, immovable, immutable, implacable, impliable, inelastic, inexorable, inflamed, inflexible,… …
24adamant — ad·a·mant || ædÉ™mÉ™nt adj. unyielding, firm, immovable; hard n. something unyielding, something immovable; something hard; stone similar to a diamond …
25adamant adj — From Adam s Aunt, reputed to be a hard character. Hence, anything tough, or hard …
26hard-line — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. rigid, uncompromising; authoritarian. See obstinacy. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. uncompromising, unyielding, adamant, firm, intractable, hardcore, unbending. ANT.: submitting, yielding …
27adamant — n. exceptionally hard substance; adj. impenetrable; immovable. ♦ adamantine, a …
28die-hard — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. immovable, intransigent, extremist; see conservative , obstinate , resolute 2 . n. Syn. zealot, reactionary, extremist, bitter ender*; see conservative , zealot . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. tough, tenacious,… …
29die-hard — n 1.Inf. bitter ender, intransigent, irreconcilable, resister; extremist, fanatic, zealot; reactionary, ultraconservative, radical. adj 2. intransigent, irreconcilable, uncompromising, adamant, steeled; resisting, unyielding, inflexible, rigid,… …
30adamantine — a. 1. Made of adamant. 2. Adamantean, very hard, hard as adamant …
