States and conditions
Synonyms for amount
Synonyms for amount: come and sum. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for amount
- comeverb, in the sense "to measure up to in kind or quality"
- sumnoun, in the sense "a quantity of money"
All two are filed under amount's own senses, one synonym per sense, each read by a human before it shipped.
to measure up to in kind or quality
This idea will never amount to anything.
The true synonym
come
Same sentence, swapped: This idea will never come to anything.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for amount in the sentence quoted.
- reduce
- choke
- damage
a quantity of money
The amount he had in cash was insufficient.
The true synonym
sum
Same sentence, swapped: The sum he had in cash was insufficient.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for amount in the sentence quoted.
- credit
- protection
- damage
Where amount turns up in the game
amount is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where amount is the trap
- ratenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is pace, in the sense "the relative speed of progress or change", and amount is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play amount
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so amount reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. amount carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.