tantamount

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈtæntəˌmaʊnt/

Adjective

tantamount

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

   It's tantamount to fraud.

   In this view, disagreement and treason are tantamount.

   • the certainty that delay, under these circumstances, was tantamount to ruin

Translations

• French: équivalent
• German: gleichbedeutend
• Italian: equivalente
• Portuguese: equivalente
• Russian: равноси́льный
• Spanish: equivalente

Verb

tantamount (tantamounts, present participle tantamounting; past and past participle tantamounted)

1. (obsolete) To amount to as much; to be equivalent.

Noun

tantamount (plural tantamounts)

1. (obsolete) Something which has the same value or amount (as something else). (attributive use passing into adjective, below)
   • 1977, the Last Essays of Maurice Hewlett, page 42:

     For end thereof, not despondency but madness : for when Cossey understood that Hobday had called his wife a tantamount, he waited for him outside, and gave him what he called a pair of clippers over the ear.

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