Tantamount

Verb

 * 1)  To amount to as much; to be equivalent.

Noun

 * 1)  Something which has the same value or amount (as something else).

Adjective

 * 1) Equivalent in meaning or effect.
 * It's tantamount to fraud.
 * In this view, disagreement and treason are tantamount.

Quotations

 * 2003: In Bosnia, as in Rwanda, however, passive neutrality was tantamount to complicity with the perpetrators of "ethnic cleansing" and mass murder &mdash; The New Yorker, 3 March 2003

Thesaurus
alike, all one, all the same, analogous, answering, coequal, complemental, complementary, convertible, coordinate, correspondent, corresponding, duplicate, equal, equiparant, equipollent, equivalent, homologous, identic, identical, indistinguishable, like, much the same, reciprocal, reciprocative, selfsame, uniform, very

Etymology
From tant: amunter:.

Pronunciation

 * , {{SAMPA|/"t{n.t@%maUnt/}}

Adjective

 * Catalan: equivalent
 * French: équivalent
 * German: gleichbedeutend
 * Italian: equivalente


 * Polish: równoważny
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