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Compliant vs Adamant - What's the difference?

compliant | adamant |

As adjectives the difference between compliant and adamant

is that compliant is willing to comply; yielding; bending; pliant; submissive; willing to do what someone wants while adamant is firm; unshakeable; unyielding; determined.

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.

compliant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Willing to comply; yielding; bending; pliant; submissive; willing to do what someone wants.
  • The suspect was compliant when arrested.
  • Compatible with or following guidelines, specifications, rules, or laws.
  • The browser is standards compliant .
    The workplace is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

    Derived terms

    (compatible with guidlines) * *

    See also

    * compliantly

    Anagrams

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    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
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  • 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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