tantamount
adjective
[ ˈtantəmaʊnt ]
• equivalent in seriousness to; virtually the same as.
• "the resignations were tantamount to an admission of guilt"
Similar:
equivalent to,
equal to,
amounting to,
as good as,
more or less,
synonymous with,
virtually the same as,
much the same as,
comparable to,
on a par with,
commensurate with,
along the lines of,
as serious as,
identical to,
Origin:
mid 17th century: from the earlier verb tantamount ‘amount to as much’, from Italian tanto montare .
