Crossword clues for tantamount
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tantamount \Tan"ta*mount`\, a. [F. tant so much (L. tantus) + E. amount.] Equivalent in value, signification, or effect.
A usage nearly tantamount to constitutional right.
--Hallam.
The certainty that delay, under these circumstances,
was tantamount to ruin.
--De Quincey.
Tantamount \Tan"ta*mount`\, v. i.
To be tantamount or equivalent; to amount. [Obs.]
--Jer.
Taylor.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
equivalent in meaning or effect. n. (context obsolete English) Something which has the same value or amount (as something else). (qualifier: attributive use passing into adjective, below) v
(context obsolete English) To amount to as much; to be equivalent.
WordNet
adj. 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" [syn: equivalent, tantamount(p)]
Usage examples of "tantamount".
And even the private schools, traditionally viewed with suspicious dislike by state education officials, were hit by surprise inspections so seldom that the very act of an accreditation team, showing up unannounced at one of them, was tantamount to an accusation of educational hanky-panky.
Nate Tuchfarber squinted at the three-page tenant agreement as if it were a proctology instrument and to sign it was tantamount to bending over and coughing on command.
Given the imperative for war that now suffused even the intelligentsia of the Hegemony, such a comment was tantamount to treason.
American moral and intellectual emancipation can be achieved only by a victory over the ideas, the conditions, and the standards which make Americanism tantamount to collective irresponsibility and to the moral and intellectual subordination of the individual to a commonplace popular average.
Beyond the Inconvenience and Expense of such a Move, it would be Tantamount to declaring open War with the Browns, and I think that not prudent, not if I must be frequently away from home, leaving my Family unprotected.
Therefore to be inveigled into lending Pompeius or his adherents money is tantamount to throwing it into the sea.
A suggestion from the aunts, however graciously put, was tantamount to an order from anyone else: Prudence opened The Times and began on the proceedings in Parliament, constantly interrupted by Aunt Emma, discoursing on the politics of her own country.
The starting situation, we believe, was when multifront war, waged on the surface of the planet, became tantamount to total annihilation.
This resulted in skyrocketing prices for what tea was available, which on Portsmouth was tantamount to cause for a declaration of war, if only the party responsible for the catastrophe could be positively identified.
Like some editors and television producers, some scientists believe the public is too ignorant or too stupid to understand science, that the enterprise of popularization is fundamentally a lost cause, or even that it's tantamount to fraternization, if not outright cohabitation, with the enemy.
The nominal chief of the Junta, General Manuel Perez Godoy, has flatly called Loeb "an Aprista," which is tantamount now to being called an enemy of the state.
And when he got over his surprise that Charlene was a bodice-ripper addict, he decided it wasn't necessarily a bad thing, though in her circle, reading books like that would be tantamount to wearing a tall pointy hat in the streets of Salem Village, Mass.
And when he got over his surprise that Charlene was a bodice-ripper addict, he decided it wasn’t necessarily a bad thing, though in her circle, reading books like that would be tantamount to wearing a tall pointy hat in the streets of Salem Village, Mass.
The fringe benefits would have to go, too, of course, which would make it tantamount to a death sentence, so I didn’.
The fringe benefits would have to go, too, of course, which would make it tantamount to a death sentence, so I didn't move hastily.