The phrase "is tantamount" implies similarity or equivalency between two things, actions or situations. Its antonyms indicate stark differences or incongruity. Words like "opposite" and "contrary" suggest that the two things being compared are completely different, and have no similarity between them. "Incompatible" and "irreconcilable" imply a lack of harmony or agreement between the two things, while "immaterial" and "inconsequential" denote that one thing is irrelevant, unimportant, or insignificant in comparison to the other. Therefore, when looking for antonyms for "is tantamount," one should focus on words that connote disparity, incongruity, and dissimilarity.

What are the antonyms for Is tantamount?

• v.

  • equal
  • differ
  ,
  • disagree
  ,
  • disconnect
  ,
  • disproportion
  ,
  • fail
  ,
  • imbalance
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  • separate
  ,
  • unmatch
  ,
  • vary
  .

Famous quotes with Is tantamount

• An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.

  Gabriele Nanni
• Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

  Mahatma Gandhi
• Bitterness is tantamount to unforgivingness just like hatred is tantamount to murder. Thus, choose forgivingness and happiness over bitterness. Moreover, choose love and compassion over hatred.

  Emeasoba George
• The theory is that election to Congress is tantamount to being dispatched to Washington on a looting raid for the enrichment of your state or district, and no other ethic need inhibit the feeding frenzy.

  George Will
• Yet again - visible and invisible. The panic of loneliness - not physical, far more moral - arises from the fact that every lonely person is wearing a , a magic hood, (in German fairy tales, a magic cap which makes the wearer invisible) against his will: which is tantamount to saying: "If people don't bother about me, it's because nobody is seeing me - seeing . I'm just a piece of furniture in their eyes." … Newcomers in a strange world suffer this fate especially, what's more in a doubly unpleasant way: first because no one takes any notice of them since they don't belong, i.e. they're , yet at the same time they're conspicuous, in the way, a nuisance, desperately conscious of being just awkward lumps of furniture.

  Ida Friederike Görres

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