tantamount
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7.6
- adjective
- /ˈtæn.tə.maʊnt/
- Formal
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equivalente
- From Brazil's perspective, such an arrangement would be viewed as tantamount to giving up part of its territory.
- tantamount to political suicide
I mean, that was tantamount to just getting creamed.
- I mean, that was tantamount to just getting creamed.
- I'm imagining someone who whose concept of going out is tantamount to going to the bar and getting drunk.
- And he says the reason that we don't like to admit that we're wrong is that it's tantamount to the ego being destroyed.
- The living water is the next stage and the illumination of it, the recognition of it, is tantamount to our experience of it.
- And they were saying that we will decide, and you all must support this, that dissent was tantamount to betrayal.
- Given the impression that only a few leftist militants are making trouble, this is tantamount to skirting the real issues involved.
- Content itself is tantamount to a distinction, which is no distinction, that is, to an absence of content.
- So again, to explain how to do this, it would be tantamount to explaining how to write a movie script, right?
- And any communication with them from that point is tantamount to an inconvenience to them.
- And is compassion tantamount to to endorsements, Right.
Examples
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So with that, most would say such a move is tantamount to financial suicide.
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The study of these five styles is tantamount to a study of five different cultures.
Academic text (1992) -
To cancel the summit now would be tantamount to war.
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Should a tragedy occur, it would be tantamount to murder.
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Mr. President, agreeing to such a trade would be tantamount to paying ransom.
Fiction book (2000) -
To question or disobey the law is tantamount to destroying the authority of the law.
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Retaining the chieftaincy, goes this argument, is tantamount to holding back progress and development.
Academic text (1993) -
That's always tantamount to a confession of guilt.
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Given the impression that only a few leftist militants are making trouble, this is tantamount to skirting the real issues involved.
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To cancel the summit now would be tantamount to war.
Synonyms
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3.5
Equal in value, amount, function, meaning, or effect to something else
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3.9
Similar in feeling or quality to something
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6.5
Similar in some ways that help you understand another thing
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tantamount comes from old words tant 'so much' and amount 'to be worth the same', and the second part is the same as the common English word amount. So, if something is tantamount to something else, it is almost the same in effect.