Tantamount

Definition: Tantamount

Tantamount

Adjective

1. Being essentially equal to something; "it was as good as gold"; "a wish that was equivalent to a command"; "his statement was tantamount to an admission of guilt".

Date "tantamount" was first used: 1641. (references)

Synonyms: Tantamount

Synonyms: as good as(p) (adj), equivalent(p) (adj), tantamount(p) (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Equality	Equivalent, tantamount; indistinguishable; quits; homologous; synonymous; resolvable into, convertible, much at one, as broad as long, neither more nor less.; much the same as, the same thing as, as good as; all one, all the same; equipollent, equiponderant, equiponderous, equibalanced; equalized; Verb: drawn; half and half; isochronal, isochronous isoperimetric, isoperimetrical; isobath, isobathic.
Imagination	Declaratory; intelligible; literal; synonymous; tantamount; (equivalent); implied; (latent); explicit.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Tantamount

English words defined with "tantamount": amount, as good as ♦ equivalent. (references)

Specialty definitions using "tantamount": Bells ♦ Cake ... Dough, Coterie' ♦ Image of God ♦ Nettoyer ♦ Picards. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Richleighs of Tantamount (reference) The Democratic Party Primary in Virginia: Tantamount to Election No Longer (reference) (more book examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		To examine the list of therapies being explored for the muscular dystrophies is tantamount to taking a tour through the most active frontiers of modern medicine, including gene therapy, cell replacement, and innovative approaches to drug development. (references)
Civil Liberties	Mozambique	PIMO and some members of the legislature argued that the Movimento Islamico, a parliamentary caucus of Muslims from the ruling FRELIMO party, was tantamount to a religious party. (references)
	Saudi Arabia	Persons whose criticisms align them with an organized political opposition are subject to arrest and detention until they confess to a crime or sign a statement promising not to resume such criticisms, which is tantamount to a confession. (references)
Economic History	Moldova	There was no "creeping expropriation" or governmental action tantamount to expropriation in Moldova. (references)
Human Rights	Korea	Although the new system was a significant step for the Government, human rights groups criticized the requirement of a promise to obey the law, including the NSL, as tantamount to forcing citizens to renounce their beliefs. (references)
Indigenous People	Gabon	NGO workers visited more than a dozen villages and found that most Pygmies there lived in conditions tantamount to slavery, working on plantations for "masters" for one plate of rice and a few cents per day. (references)
Worker Rights	Greece	The International Labor Organization (ILO) Committee of Experts has criticized this power as tantamount to forced labor. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Tantamount" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tantamount" is used about 148 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	148	25,903

Expressions using "tantamount": be tantamount ♦ be tantamount to ♦ tantamount to ♦ that is tantamount to saying. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "tantamount"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i barazvlershëm. (various references)

Arabic		‏معادل (amounting to, equal, equivalent, worth). (various references)

Bulgarian		равняващ се, равносилен, равен (concurrent, equal, even, fellow, flat, flush, level, like, on a par with, peer, smooth, stricken). (various references)

Chinese		同等 (parity). (various references)

Czech		stejný (alike, coequal, consistent, equal, even, identical, like, one, parallel, same, uniform), rovnající se. (various references)

Farsi		معادل (Equivalent), همپایه , هم کف , بمثابه , برابر (Abreast, Breast, Equal, Equivalent, Plain, Square). (various references)

French		équivalent. (various references)

German		gleichbedeutend (conterminous, identical, synonymic, synonymous, synonynous). (various references)

Greek		ισάξιοσ (equivalent, peer). (various references)

Hebrew		שקול כ� �'�" (tantamount to), כמו�"ו כ- (tantamount to), �"י� ו כ- (tantamount to). (various references)

Hungarian		egyenértékű (compeer, equivalent, to be on a par with), annyi mint. (various references)

Italian		uguale (coordinate, equal, even, identic, identical, like, match, peer, same, uniform), equivalente (equivalent, equivalently). (various references)

Manx		corrym (adequate, amends, candid, equal, equitable, equivalent, even, exact, flat, flat rate of pay, flush, impartial, justice, level, par, pregnant, revenge, satisfaction, tally, treatment). (various references)

Pig Latin		antamounttay.(various references)

Portuguese		equivalente (compensative, equipped, equivalence, equivalent, like, match, quid pro quo). (various references)

Romanian		egal cu (tantamount to), echivalent cu (tantamount to), e ca şi cum ai zice (that is tantamount to saying). (various references)

Russian		равносильный (match, tantamount to). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ravan (close, even, flat, level, plane), koji se svodi. (various references)

Spanish		equivalente (counterpart, equivalent, equivalently). (various references)

Swedish		likvärdig (equivalent, interconvertible), liktydig (synonymous). (various references)

Turkish		eşit (coequal, commensurate, coordinate, equal, equi-, equivalent, even, iso-, on a par with), aynı değerde (on a par with). (various references)

Ukranian		рівносильний (equipollent), еквівалентний (equivalent, reciprocal). (various references)

Vietnamese		tương đương với, nang với, có giá trị như. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Old French	900-1400	tant. (various references)
Anglo-French	1100-1600	tant amunter. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Misspellings
	"Tantamount" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tanamount, tantamont, tatamount, tentamount, tinamou. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "tantamount" (pronounced ta"ntumou'nt)
6	-t u m ou' n t	catamount.
5	-u m ou' n t	paramount.
3	-ou' n t	headcount, undercount.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-m-n-n-o-t-t-t-u"
	-3 letters: annatto, automan.
	-4 letters: amount, anatto, mantua, mutant, mutton, natant, nutant, outman.
	-5 letters: atman, manat, manna, manta, mount, muton, notum, tanto, taunt, toman, unman.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-m-n-n-o-t-t-t-u"
	+3 letters: transmutation.
	+4 letters: transmutations.
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