Synonyms for tantamount
ˈtæn təˌmaʊnttan·ta·mount

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1. tantamount

   Synonyms:
   equal, equivalent, equipollent, synonymous

   Antonyms:
   unequal, unequivalent

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1. equivalent, tantamount(p)adjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   unequal

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1. tantamountadjective

   Synonyms:
   equivalent, equal

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1. List of paraphrases for "tantamount":

   equivalent, synonym

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1. Mo Shaoping:

   CCTV's broadcasts are tantamount to trial by media and they convict people without the court, they never air people's denial of their alleged crimes, or quote us lawyers. It's against basic journalistic principles.

2. Nick Loeb:

   I didn't create lives lightly. This was very, very important to me, to the point where, when we created these lives and we put them into a surrogate, we were coming up with names for our children. And so, to do anything besides continue their journey towards life and birth to me is tantamount to destruction.

3. Mike Vigil:

   It's not going to have an impact, it would be tantamount to closing down a few franchises of McDonald's while the global chain continues to exist.

4. Mahatma Gandhi:

   Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

5. Zhang Hao of Tianjin University:

   At this time, the U.S. government holds a pervasive, unfair view of ethnic Chinese academics and engineers, always looking at us with the attitude of 'guarding against thieves', they believe that coming to the U.S. to study abroad or engage in scientific research is tantamount to wanting to steal U.S. technology. This is absurd.