Word Meanings - AMOUNT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

L. ad montem to the mountain) upward, F. amont up the river. See 1. To go up; to ascend. So up he rose, and thence amounted straight. Spenser. 2. To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come in the aggregate or

Additional info about word: AMOUNT

L. ad montem to the mountain) upward, F. amont up the river. See 1. To go up; to ascend. So up he rose, and thence amounted straight. Spenser. 2. To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come in the aggregate or whole; -- with to or unto. 3. To rise, reach, or extend in effect, substance, or influence; to be equivalent; to come practically ; as, the testimony amounts to very little.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AMOUNT)

• Aggregate
• Aggregation
• Sum
• result
• total
• mass
• whole
• totality
• collection
• amount
• collation
• combination
• Degree
• Grade
• rank
• stage
• step
• extent
• measure
• mark
• rate
• position
• quality
• class
• station
• range
• quantity
• limit
• order
• Quantity
• Measure
• bulk
• size
• sum
• portion
• aggregate
• muchness
• part
• share
• division
• example
• problem
• substance
• gist
• tenor
• height
• completion
• drift
• bearing

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of AMOUNT)

• Fall
• recede
• relapse
• decline
• fail
• Misfit
• misconform
• mismeasure
• misdeal
• misapportion
• Disturb
• disconnect
• disorder
• derange
• intermit
• remain
• be stationary
• Originate
• arise
• precede
• spring
• commence
• start
• begin

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• CLASSIFIC
  Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.
• CLASSIFICATORY
  Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle.
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• CLASSICISM
  A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.
• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• RANGEMENT
  Arrangement. Waterland.
• SPRINGBOARD
  An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.
• SPRINGE
  A noose fastened to an elastic body, and drawn close with a sudden spring, whereby it catches a bird or other animal; a gin; a snare. As a woodcock to mine own springe. Shak.
• DRIFTBOLT
  A bolt for driving out other bolts.
• SPRINGAL
  An ancient military engine for casting stones and arrows by means of a spring.
• STATIONARINESS
  The quality or state of being stationary; fixity.
• LIMITARIAN
  Tending to limit.
• CLASSIS
  An ecclesiastical body or judicat (more info) 1. A class or order; sort; kind. His opinion of that classis of men. Clarendon.
• LIMITIVE
  Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
• STARTLINGLY
  In a startling manner.
• SPRINT
  To run very rapidly; to run at full speed. A runner should be able to sprint the whole way. Encyc. Brit. (more info) Etym:
• TOTALIS
  The total. I look on nothing but totalis. B. Jonson.
• LIMITABLE
  Capable of being limited.
• SPRIGHTLY
  Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• IMPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportionate.
• ESTRANGE
  extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
• UNEXAMPLED
  Having no example or similar case; being without precedent; unprecedented; unparalleled. "A revolution . . . unexampled for grandeur of results." De Quincey.
• ORANGEADE
  A drink made of orange juice and water, corresponding to lemonade; orange sherbet.
• MENOSTATION
  See MENOSTASIS
• CITRANGE
  A citrous fruit produced by a cross between the sweet orange and the trifoliate orange . It is more acid and has a more pronounced aroma than the orange; the tree is hardier. There are several varieties.
• WEATHER STATION
  A station for taking meteorological observations, making weather forecasts, or disseminating such information. Such stations are of the first order when they make observations of all the important elements either hourly or by self-registering
• DISPROPORTIONABLE
  Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
• DISPROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
• TORPEDO STATION
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