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. 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.

2. Mahatma Gandhi:

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

3. Ajnesh Prasad:

   If we talk about the urban poor, it's impossible for them to observe these directives, they will tell you that observing these directives would be tantamount to starving themselves to death.

4. Gregg Leslie:

   The U.S. government has made it clear in several recent whistleblower cases that it sees unauthorized communications with journalists about national security as tantamount to espionage, basically, this upsets the traditional methods of newsgathering, where some level of access to sensitive information -- even some unauthorized access to classified information -- is necessary to fully inform the American public of what their government is up to.

5. Radhika Ganesh:

   Caste is an open sort of practice accepted in Tamil Nadu. Everyone is silent about it and the silence is tantamount to creating the violence around it.