English-Portuguese translations for tantamount

• equivalente
  É equivalente a utilizar Belzebu para exorcizar o diabo. This is tantamount to using Beelzebub to exorcise the devil.
  Em ambos os casos, seria o equivalente a malhar em ferro frio. In both cases, that would be tantamount to flogging a dead horse.
  Dizer o contrário seria o equivalente a enfiarmos a cabeça na areia. To state the contrary would be tantamount to sticking our heads in the sand.

Definition of tantamount

• Equivalent in meaning or effect; amounting to the same thing in practical terms, even if being technically distinct
• To amount to as much; to be equivalent
• Something which has the same value or amount .

Examples

• Its tantamount to fraud.
• In this view, disagreement and treason are tantamount.

Related words

• tantalum
• instantaneous
• tantalising
• tantalizing
• tantalize
• tantalise
• instantaneously
• constantan
• tantalus