Definition of tantamount
:equivalent in value, significance, or effect
- a relationship tantamount to marriage
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Examples of tantamount in a Sentence
His statement was tantamount to an admission of guilt.
They see any criticism of the President as tantamount to treason.
Recent Examples of tantamount from the Web
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More importantly, trying to suppress that reaction would be tantamount to denying that Allen molested Dylan.
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Similarly here, the information allegedly revealed concerned Jenni Rivera and her family's intimate affairs and the like, which appear tantamount to Salgado's observations about Jenni Rivera's 'lifestyle.'
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That said, standing still is tantamount to going backwards in this day and age, so of course creative director Jonny Johansson decided to drop a seriously cool campaign on the world to mark the launch of the brand's newest collection.
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A vote was tantamount to a show of support for President Nicolas Maduro and his allies.
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Though riches may not be the endgame for Jones, who was recently profiled on Refinery29 and whose client Tyehimba Jess received the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, running a successful business is tantamount.
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Taking this employer contribution away from Hill staffers would be tantamount to a pay cut of thousands of dollars.
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EPA’s stay, in other words, is essentially an order delaying the rule’s effective date, and this court has held that such orders are tantamount to amending or revoking a rule.
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Such a meeting, and the subsequent vote, would be tantamount to treason, as Simsbury citizens existed under the British crown.
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Did You Know?
Tantamount comes from the Anglo-French phrase tant amunter, meaning "to amount to as much." This phrase comes from the Old French tant, meaning "so much" or "as much," and amounter, meaning "to ascend" or "to add up to." When tantamount first entered English, it was used similarly to the Anglo-French phrase, as a verb meaning "to be equivalent." "His not denying tant-amounteth to the affirming of the matter," wrote clergyman Thomas Fuller in 1659, for example. There was also a noun tantamount in the 17th century, but the adjective is the only commonly used form of the term nowadays.
Origin and Etymology of tantamount
obsolete tantamount, noun, equivalent, from Anglo-French tant amunter to amount to as much
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