tantamount
equivalent, as in value, force, effect, or signification: His angry speech was tantamount to a declaration of war.
Origin of tantamount
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Words that may be confused with tantamount
- paramount, tantamount
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How to use tantamount in a sentence
What’s missing—yet tantamount to our brain’s inner working—is timing.
New Spiking Neuromorphic Chip Could Usher in an Era of Highly Efficient AI | Shelly Fan | November 9, 2021 | Singularity HubThe judge also acknowledged that the government request was tantamount to a life sentence.
Employing the familiar War on Terror tagline “If you see something, say something,” the gubment would have us believe that dropping a wee turd on the sand is tantamount to dropping a suitcase bomb on the subway.
His ideas were so revolutionary that many saw them as tantamount to a call for a second Reformation.
Hans Küng, Catholic theologian who challenged papal authority, dies at 93 | Matt Schudel | April 9, 2021 | Washington PostThe only caveat I would raise is if there are a very small number of aides whose identity is known when releasing the number would be tantamount to identifying them.
Kayleigh McEnany’s bogus excuse for a lack of coronavirus transparency | Aaron Blake | October 5, 2020 | Washington Post
To this aide, these attacks were tantamount to “asking to intervene on the side of ISIS.”
Turing was offered the option of two years in prison or oestrogen injections—tantamount to chemical castration.
Oscar's Battle of the Brits: Pals Benedict Cumberbatch and Eddie Redmayne Vie for the Gold | Marlow Stern | September 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe was given the choice of two years in prison or oestrogen injections, tantamount to chemical castration.
Benedict Cumberbatch on 'The Imitation Game,' Homophobia, and How to Combat ISIS | Marlow Stern | September 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBeing shamed by her church was tantamount to losing her community and her job.
For them the 18-day search for the Israeli teens and the manhunt for their captors was tantamount to collective punishment.
There Is No Moral Equivalent to the Murder of Three Israeli Teenagers | Thane Rosenbaum | July 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe alterations were indeed small; but the alteration even of a letter was tantamount to a declaration of independence.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington MacaulayWitness his conception, in The Broken Heart, of a loveless marriage as tantamount to adultery.
The Fatal Dowry | Philip MassingerTo try and compel them to pay was tantamount to placing liberty and even life in jeopardy.
The Pilgrim's Shell or Fergan the Quarryman | Eugne SueIndeed, to call a work of art purely and simply "scientific," is tantamount to saying that it is dry and uninspired by the muse.
Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician | Frederick NiecksNow this would be tantamount to conceiving the definition of a thing that did not exist, which is impossible.
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British Dictionary definitions for tantamount
/ (ˈtæntəˌmaʊnt) /
(postpositive foll by to) as good (as); equivalent in effect (to): his statement was tantamount to an admission of guilt
Origin of tantamount
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