TANTAMOUNT Synonyms: 78 Similar and Opposite Words

tantamount

adjective

Definition of tantamount

as in analogous

equal to something in value, meaning, or effect His statement was tantamount to an admission of guilt. They see any criticism of the President as tantamount to treason.

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Recent Examples of tantamount Maintaining grades and playing the sport with discipline and respect becomes tantamount to any wins or losses. — Ethan Hanson, Daily News, 21 Aug. 2026 The district is so overwhelmingly Democratic that winning the primary is tantamount to winning the general election. — Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2026 The city is now proceeding with an independent secondary investigation, which is tantamount to an admission that their initial investigation was both inadequate and incomplete. — Christa Swanson, CBS News, 16 Aug. 2026 Despite distancing herself from her Democratic predecessor, Klobuchar faced attacks from Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth, who ran in the Republican primary, arguing that her leadership would be tantamount to giving Walz another term. — Rena Rowe, The Washington Examiner, 12 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for tantamount

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Adjective

Canada retaliated with its own set of near-analogous duties on more than $20 billion in American goods in early September.

— Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2026
Bayzo's pub is analogous to an English tavern, with creamy cups of clam chowder and a piano likely to launch you into Elton John renditions.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of analogous

Adjective

The physiological case for a brief dunk is, by her own account, comparable.

— Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Oct. 2026
According to Inception, Mercury 3 is more than 40 times larger than its first-generation model, Mercury 1, while maintaining comparable processing speeds.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of comparable

Adjective

But his planning doesn’t mean that the tax would survive the courts, and in any case, not every billionaire will necessarily make similar arrangements.

— Ramesh Ponnuru, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2026
Garshick told Prevention that stacking actives carries similar risks.

— Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of similar

Adjective

On July 2, 2025, a burst with energy equivalent to 1,000 suns blazing for 10 billion years lit up Fermi’s detectors, heading from a dusty galaxy about eight billion light-years from Earth.

— Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
The mod could help fill a void since AMD has no DLSS 5 equivalent.

— Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 20 Oct. 2026

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