Definition of "adamantine" in inglés

adjective

1. Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated.

   • adamantine bonds    adamantine chains
   • 1984, Gayle Rubin, "Thinking Sex" in Carole S. Vance, Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality (Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul), 267-319. Sex law is the most adamantine instrument of sexual stratification and erotic persecution.

2. Like the diamond in hardness or luster.

noun

1. Synonym of adamantium.