Tantamount

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Adjective 1.2 Usage Note 1.3 Quotations 1.3.1 Translations

English

Adjective

1. Equivalent in meaning or effect.

   It's tantamount to fraud.

   In this view, disagreement and treason are tantamount.

Usage Note

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

• Russian: равноси́льный (ravnosíl'neey)