What does gamut mean?
Gamut means A (normally) complete range..
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/ˈɡæm.ət/ · noun
A (normally) complete range..
1933?, Dorothy Parker, review of Katharine Hepburn in the Broadway play The Lake She delivered a striking performance that ran the gamut of emotions, from A to B.
I must begin with rudiments of Art / To teach you gamoth in a briefer sort, - - Bian. Why, I am past my gamouth long agoe.
The entire gamut of the view's changes should have been known to her; its winter aspect, spring, summer and autumn; how storms came up from the sea; how the moors shuddered and brightened as the clouds went over; she should have noted the red spot where the villas were building; and the criss-cross of lines where the allotments were cut...
THE LONDON BRIGHTON & SOUTH COAST RAILWAY. By C. Hamilton Ellis. Ian Allan. 30s. [...] In the course of its pages the author runs through the whole gamut of the locomotives that have during the period under review run on the rails of the L.B. & S.C. and its forebears.
Use gamut when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Gamut means A (normally) complete range..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1933?, Dorothy Parker, review of Katharine Hepburn in the Broadway play The Lake She delivered a striking performance that ran the gamut of emotions, from A to B.
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