| Adage |
| An old saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a
proverb. |
| Adagial |
| Pertaining to an adage; proverbial. |
| Adagio |
| Slow; slowly, leisurely, and gracefully. When
repeated, adagio, adagio, it directs the movement to be very slow. |
| Adagio |
| A piece of music in adagio time; a slow movement; as, an
adagio of Haydn. |
| Adam |
| The name given in the Bible to the first man, the progenitor
of the human race. |
| Adam |
| "Original sin;" human frailty. |
| 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. |
| Adamant |
| Lodestone; magnet. |
| Adamantean |
| Of adamant; hard as adamant. |
| Adamantine |
| Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant;
incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine
bonds or chains. |
