"tantamount" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈtæntəˌmaʊnt/ Audio: en-us-tantamount.ogg , en-au-tantamount.ogg Forms: more tantamount [comparative], most tantamount [superlative]
Rhymes: -æntəmaʊnt Etymology: First attested in English in 1628. Either inherited from an unattested Middle English borrowing from Anglo-Norman tant amount, from amunter, from tant (“as much”) amonter (“to amount to”) or borrowed in the early 17th century from Italian tanto montare (“to amount to as much”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|xno|tant amount}} Anglo-Norman tant amount, {{m+|it|tanto montare|t=to amount to as much}} Italian tanto montare (“to amount to as much”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} tantamount (comparative more tantamount, superlative most tantamount)
  1. Equivalent in meaning or effect; amounting to the same thing in practical terms, even if being technically distinct. Translations (equivalent in meaning or effect): равностоен (ravnostoen) (Bulgarian), равносилен (ravnosilen) (Bulgarian), equivalent (Catalan), 等於 (Chinese Cantonese), 等于 (english: dang² jyu¹) (Chinese Cantonese), gelijkgesteld (Dutch), gelijkstaand (Dutch), gelijkwaardig (Dutch), equivalent (Dutch), samanveroinen (Finnish), käytännössä sama kuin (Finnish), équivalent (French), gleichbedeutend (German), egyenértékű (Hungarian), felér (Hungarian), ionann (Irish), equivalente (Italian), equivalent (Occitan), równoważny [masculine] (Polish), equivalente (Portuguese), равноси́льный (ravnosílʹnyj) (Russian), equivalente (Spanish), equiparable (Spanish), equipolente (Spanish), liktydig (Swedish), рівноси́льний (rivnosýlʹnyj) (Ukrainian), рівноці́нний (rivnocínnyj) (Ukrainian)
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Noun

IPA: /ˈtæntəˌmaʊnt/ Audio: en-us-tantamount.ogg , en-au-tantamount.ogg Forms: tantamounts [plural]
Rhymes: -æntəmaʊnt Etymology: First attested in English in 1628. Either inherited from an unattested Middle English borrowing from Anglo-Norman tant amount, from amunter, from tant (“as much”) amonter (“to amount to”) or borrowed in the early 17th century from Italian tanto montare (“to amount to as much”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|xno|tant amount}} Anglo-Norman tant amount, {{m+|it|tanto montare|t=to amount to as much}} Italian tanto montare (“to amount to as much”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} tantamount (plural tantamounts)
  1. (obsolete) Something which has the same value or amount (as something else). (attributive use passing into adjective, below) Tags: obsolete
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Verb

IPA: /ˈtæntəˌmaʊnt/ Audio: en-us-tantamount.ogg , en-au-tantamount.ogg Forms: tantamounts [present, singular, third-person], tantamounting [participle, present], tantamounted [participle, past], tantamounted [past]
Rhymes: -æntəmaʊnt Etymology: First attested in English in 1628. Either inherited from an unattested Middle English borrowing from Anglo-Norman tant amount, from amunter, from tant (“as much”) amonter (“to amount to”) or borrowed in the early 17th century from Italian tanto montare (“to amount to as much”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|xno|tant amount}} Anglo-Norman tant amount, {{m+|it|tanto montare|t=to amount to as much}} Italian tanto montare (“to amount to as much”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} tantamount (third-person singular simple present tantamounts, present participle tantamounting, simple past and past participle tantamounted)
  1. (obsolete) To amount to as much; to be equivalent. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-tantamount-en-verb-VVlDPvHb

Inflected forms

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          "text": "In this view, disagreement and treason are tantamount.",
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          "ref": "1853, Thomas De Quincey, “French Invasion of Ireland, and Second Rebellion”, in Autobiographic Sketches (De Quincey’s Works; I), London: James Hogg & Sons, →OCLC, page 270:",
          "text": "Every moment might bring the British cruisers in sight,—two important expeditions had already been baffled in that way,—and the absolute certainty, known to all parties alike, that delay, under these circumstances, was tantamount to ruin; […]",
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          "ref": "1981, Del Martin, Battered Wives, page 90:",
          "text": "[…] expecting the woman to take her attacker into physical custody is tantamount to preventing the arrest. If she could handle him, she probably would not need to call the police in the first place.",
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          "ref": "2003 March 3, Philip Gourevitch, “The Optimist”, in The New Yorker:",
          "text": "In Bosnia, as in Rwanda, however, passive neutrality was tantamount to complicity with the perpetrators of “ethnic cleansing” and mass murder.",
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          "ref": "2022 March 16, Max Fisher, “As Russia Digs In, What’s the Risk of Nuclear War? ‘It’s Not Zero.’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
          "text": "Russia has said that it considers the weapons and other increased military aid that Western governments are sending to Ukraine tantamount to war, and has implied that it might strike NATO convoys.",
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