Tantamount

Quick meaning: Tantamount is an adjective meaning Equivalent in meaning or effect; amounting to the same thing in practical terms, even if being technically distinct.

Meaning

Equivalent in meaning or effect; amounting to the same thing in practical terms, even if being technically distinct.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To amount to as much; to be equivalent.
2. (obsolete) Something which has the same value or amount (as something else). (attributive use passing into adjective, below)

Example Sentences

[…] and yet this will not tant’amount to an immediate Divine inſtitution for Deacons, and how can it then for Presbyters ?

“Defendants’ representations to this Court that Mr. Musk is not running DOGE are tantamount to legal gaslighting,” CREW said.

In Bosnia, as in Rwanda, however, passive neutrality was tantamount to complicity with the perpetrators of “ethnic cleansing” and mass murder.

Russia has said that it considers the weapons and other increased military aid that Western governments are sending to Ukraine tantamount to war, and has implied that it might strike NATO convoys.

Word Forms

• tantamounts
• tantamounting
• tantamounted

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include equivalent, comparable, equal, same, similar, corresponding.

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