Adamant vs Certain - What's the difference?
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An imaginary rock or mineral of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness.
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An embodiment of impregnable hardness.
* 1956 , , The City and the Stars , p 34
A magnet; a lodestone.
* 1594–96 , :
Sure, positive, not doubting.
(obsolete) Determined; resolved.
* Milton
Not to be doubted or denied; established as a fact.
* Bible, Dan. ii. 45
Actually existing; sure to happen; inevitable.
* Dryden
* Shakespeare
Unfailing; infallible.
* Mead
Fixed or stated; regular; determinate.
* Bible, Ex. xvi. 4
Not specifically named; indeterminate; indefinite; one or some; sometimes used independently as a noun, and meaning certain persons.
* Bible, Luke v. 12
* Macaulay
Having been determined but unspecified. The quality of some particular subject or object which is known by the speaker to have been specifically singled out among similar entities of its class.
* Bible, Acts xxiii. 12
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As adjectives the difference between adamant and certain
is that adamant is firm; unshakeable; unyielding; determined while certain is certain.As a noun adamant
is an imaginary rock or mineral of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness.adamant
English
(wikipedia adamant)Alternative forms
* adamaunt (obsolete)Synonyms
* See alsoReferences
*Noun
(en noun)- Unprotected matter, however adamant , would have been ground to dust ages ago.
- 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.
Derived terms
* adamance (pos n) * adamantane (pos a) * adamantean (pos a) * adamantine (pos a) * adamantly (pos adv)References
* ----certain
English
Adjective
(wikipedia certain) (en adjective)- I was certain of my decision.
- However, I with thee have fixed my lot, / Certain to undergo like doom.
- The dream is certain , and the interpretation thereof sure.
- Bankruptcy is the certain outcome of your constant gambling and lending.
- Virtue that directs our ways / Through certain dangers to uncertain praise.
- Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all.
- I have often wished that I knew as certain a remedy for any other distemper.
- The people go out and gather a certain rate every day.
- It came to pass when he was in a certain city.
- About everything he wrote there was a certain natural grace and decorum.
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* (not doubting) uncertain * (sure to happen) impossible, incidentalDerived terms
* certainlyDeterminer
(en determiner)- Certain of the Jews banded together.
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