Definizione monolingua

tantamount

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.

tantamount (plural tantamounts)

1. (obsolete) Something which has the same value or amount (as something else). (attributive use passing into adjective, below)
   • 1977, the Last Essays of Maurice Hewlett, page 42:

     For end thereof, not despondency but madness : for when Cossey understood that Hobday had called his wife a tantamount, he waited for him outside, and gave him what he called a pair of clippers over the ear.

tantamount (comparative more tantamount, superlative most tantamount)

1. Equivalent in meaning or effect.

   Its tantamount to fraud.

   In this view, disagreement and treason are tantamount.

Definizione dizionario tantamount

	equivalente
	Equivalent in meaning or effect

uguale

Altri significati:

(obsolete) Something which has the same value or amount (as something else). (attributive use passing into adjective, below)

Equivalent in meaning or effect.

(obsolete) To amount to as much; to be equivalent.