Complete Definition of "tantamount"

English

Pronunciation
IPA|/�tænt��ma�nt/, SAMPA|/"t{nt@%maUnt/

Adjective
en-adj

  1. Equivalent in meaning or effect.

#:It's tantamount to fraud.
#:In this view, disagreement and treason are tantamount.

Usage notes
Tantamount is used almost exclusively in the phrase tantamount to, but may also be used by itself.

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

Translations
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