Tantamount vs Vital - What's the difference?
tantamount | vital |
(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)
Relating to, or characteristic of life.
Necessary to the continuation of life; being the seat of life; being that on which life depends.
* Spenser
Invigorating or life-giving.
Necessary to continued existence.
Relating to the recording of life events.
Very important.
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Containing life; living.
* Milton
* Alexander Pope
Capable of living; in a state to live; viable.
* Sir Thomas Browne
As adjectives the difference between tantamount and vital
is that tantamount is equivalent in meaning or effect while vital is relating to, or characteristic of life.As a verb tantamount
is (obsolete) to amount to as much; to be equivalent.As a noun tantamount
is (obsolete) something which has the same value or amount (as something else).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.
Usage notes
Tantamount is used almost exclusively in the phrase tantamount to , but may also be used by itself.Quotations
* 2003': In Bosnia, as in Rwanda, however, passive neutrality was '''tantamount to complicity with the perpetrators of "ethnic cleansing" and mass murder — ''The New Yorker, 3 March 2003vital
English
(wikipedia vital)Adjective
(en adjective)- vital''' energies; '''vital''' functions; '''vital actions
- The brain is a vital organ.
- Do the heavens afford him vital food?
- The transition to farming was vital for the creation of civilisation.
- Birth, marriage and death certificates are vital records.
- It is vital that you don't forget to do your homework.
citation, passage=David Cameron insists that his latest communications data bill is “vital to counter terrorism”. Yet terror is mayhem. It is no threat to freedom. That threat is from counter-terror, from ministers capitulating to securocrats.}}
- spirits that live throughout, vital in every part
- The dart flew on, and pierced a vital part.
- Pythagoras and Hippocrates affirm the birth of the seventh month to be vital .