2024年4月15日 · Adamant characterizes a person's unwavering determination to stick to a decision or belief, suggesting strength and resolve. In contrast, being stubborn often implies a negative connotation, where the persistence is seen as irrational or unreasonable.

2023年2月10日 · Adamant is used when someone is firm in their beliefs and refuses to budge, even in the face of opposition. Being stubborn means when someone digs their heels in and refuses to change their mind, even when it would be advantageous to do so. Being adamant is usually seen as a positive trait.

If you're adamant that something be done (or not be done), you insist that it be (or not be) so. The adjective dates to the early 1800s but it comes from a much older—and now much less common—noun. An adamant is an imaginary stone of impenetrable hardness.

Someone can be adamant about something and that stance wouldn't necessarily be looked upon as bad. An example of stubborn would be: She is too stubborn for her own good. (She can't see that her decision is a bad one...) An example of adamant would be: He is adamant about pursuing a career in acting.

2014年10月14日 · You can use the adjective adamant. Refusing to be persuaded or to change one's mind (Google dictionary); impervious to pleas, appeals, or reason; stubbornly unyielding. AHDEL. Of course, it doesn't show the stupidity, but it certainly shows a willfully ignorant nature, and justifies the purpose.

If you stubbornly refuse to change your mind about something, you are adamant about it.

What's the difference between adamant and stubborn? (n.) 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. (n.)

Stubborn and adamant are not interchangeable. Stubborn is a character trait. However, people are only adamant about a single subject (so he has a strong belief about something).

2020年4月1日 · You hear stubborn when people are complaining about someone's stubborn-ness, where adamant can be insisting or determined. "They were adamant about it." ^They insisted.

2023年12月19日 · "Stubborn" and "adamant" both refer to a firm or inflexible determination, but they can have slightly different connotations: - "Stubborn" implies a resistance to change or a refusal to be persuaded or influenced by others.