tantamount

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

tantamount
    adj 1: 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" [syn:
           {equivalent}, {tantamount(p)}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Tantamount \Tan"ta*mount`\, a. [F. tant so much (L. tantus) + E.
   amount.]
   Equivalent in value, signification, or effect.
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         A usage nearly tantamount to constitutional right.
                                                  --Hallam.
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         The certainty that delay, under these circumstances,
         was tantamount to ruin.                  --De Quincey.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Tantamount \Tan"ta*mount`\, v. i.
   To be tantamount or equivalent; to amount. [Obs.] --Jer.
   Taylor.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

28 Moby Thesaurus words for "tantamount":
      alike, all one, all the same, analogous, answering, coequal,
      complemental, complementary, convertible, coordinate,
      correspondent, corresponding, duplicate, equal, equiparant,
      equipollent, equivalent, homologous, identic, identical,
      indistinguishable, like, much the same, reciprocal, reciprocative,
      selfsame, uniform, very

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