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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.

2 synonyms · Tier 1, Foothills · 2 senses · verb and noun · 2 reason lines · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

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.

Sense 1 of 2verbTier 1, FoothillsStates and conditions

to measure up to in kind or quality

This idea will never amount to anything.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

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
Sense 2 of 2nounTier 2, TreelineMoney

a quantity of money

The amount he had in cash was insufficient.

The sentence the game shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

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.

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