Adamant vs. Headstrong — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Adamant and Headstrong
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Adamant
Adamant in classical mythology is an archaic form of diamond. In fact, the English word diamond is ultimately derived from adamas, via Late Latin diamas and Old French diamant.
Headstrong
Determined to have one's own way; stubbornly and often recklessly willful.
Adamant
Refusing to be persuaded or to change one's mind
He is adamant that he is not going to resign
Headstrong
Resulting from willfulness and obstinacy
Made a headstrong decision that he later regretted.
Adamant
A legendary rock or mineral to which many properties were attributed, formerly associated with diamond or lodestone.
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Headstrong
Determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want.
He was in that headstrong teenage phase when he felt like he knew everything.
Adamant
Not willing to change one's opinion, purpose, or principles; unyielding.
Headstrong
Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn.
Now let the headstrong boy my will control.
Adamant
A stone once believed to be impenetrable in its hardness.
Headstrong
Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy; as, a headstrong course.
Adamant
An extremely hard substance.
Headstrong
Habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition
Adamant
(said of people and their conviction) Firm; unshakeable; unyielding; determined.
Adamant
(of an object) Very difficult to break, pierce, or cut.
Adamant
An imaginary rock or mineral of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness.
Adamant
An embodiment of impregnable hardness.
Adamant
(obsolete) A lodestone.
Adamant
A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness.
Opposed the rocky orbOf tenfold adamant, his ample shield.
Adamant
Lodestone; magnet.
As true to thee as steel to adamant.
Adamant
Very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem
Adamant
Not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course; unsusceptible to persuasion;
He is adamant in his refusal to change his mind
Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him
An intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendancy
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