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Adamant vs Stalwart - What's the difference?

adamant | stalwart |

As adjectives the difference between adamant and stalwart

is that adamant is firm; unshakeable; unyielding; determined while stalwart is firmly built.

As nouns the difference between adamant and stalwart

is that adamant is an imaginary rock or mineral of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness while stalwart is one who has a strong build.

adamant

English

(wikipedia adamant)

Alternative forms

* adamaunt (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Firm; unshakeable; unyielding; determined.
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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An imaginary rock or mineral of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year= 1582 , year_published= , author= , by= , title= The first booke of the Christian exercise, appertayning to resolution , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=gvbik25DcCgC&pg=PT144 , original= , chapter= 8 , section = , isbn= , edition= , publisher= G. Flinton , location= , editor= , volume= , page= , passage= 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. }}
  • An embodiment of impregnable hardness.
  • * 1956 , , The City and the Stars , p 34
    • Unprotected matter, however adamant , would have been ground to dust ages ago.
  • A magnet; a lodestone.
  • * 1594–96 , :
    • 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)

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    stalwart

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Firmly built.
  • * 2002 November 10, Aaron Ehasz, “Crimes of the Hot”, Futurama , season 5, episode 1, Fox Broadcasting Company
    • Morbo: Direct your attention now to the African turtles seen here migrating.... Morbo wishes these stalwart nomads peace
  • * 1912 ,
    • The driver was a stalwart woman who sat at ease in the front seat and drove her car bareheaded. She left a cloud of dust and a trail of gasoline behind her.
  • Courageous.

    • Synonyms

    * (firmly built) firm, resilient, stout, strong, robust * (courageous) brave, bold, courageous, daring, valiant

    Antonyms

    * (firmly built) feeble, flimsy, soft, weak * (bold) cowardly, gutless (informal), spineless

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • one who has a strong build
  • one who firmly supports a cause