Equate vs Tantamount - What's the difference?
equate | tantamount |
(obsolete) Something which has the same value or amount (as something else).
* 1977 , the Last Essays of Maurice Hewlett , page 42:
Equivalent in meaning or effect.
* De Quincey
* 1981 , Del Martin, Battered Wives (page 90)
As verbs the difference between equate and tantamount
is that equate is to consider equal, to state as being equivalent while tantamount is to amount to as much; to be equivalent.As a noun tantamount is
something which has the same value or amount (as something else). attributive use passing into adjective, below.As an adjective tantamount is
equivalent in meaning or effect.tantamount
English
Noun
(en noun)- For end thereof, not despondency but madness : for when Cossey understood that Hobday had called his wife a tantamount , he waited for him outside, and gave him what he called a pair of clippers over the ear.
Adjective
(en adjective)- It's tantamount to fraud.
- In this view, disagreement and treason are tantamount .
- the certainty that delay, under these circumstances, was tantamount to ruin
- expecting the woman to take her attacker into physical custody is tantamount to preventing the arrest. If she could handle him, she probably would not need to call the police in the first place.