amount
amount is a 6-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To go up; to ascend. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. To go up; to ascend.
- noun. To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come (to) in the aggregate or whole; -- with to or unto.
- noun. To rise, reach, or extend in effect, substance, or influence; to be equivalent; to come practically (to); as, the testimony amounts to very little.
- transitive verb. To signify; to amount to.
- noun. The sum total of two or more sums or quantities; the aggregate; the whole quantity; a totality; as, the amount of 7 and 9 is 16; the amount of a bill; the amount of this year's revenue.
- noun. The effect, substance, value, significance, or result; the sum; as, the amount of the testimony is this.
- noun. how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify
- noun. the relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterion
"an adequate amount of food for four people"
- noun. a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers
- noun. a quantity of money
"he borrowed a large sum"
"the amount he had in cash was insufficient"
- verb. develop into
"This idea will never amount to anything"
"nothing came of his grandiose plans"
- verb. add up in number or quantity
"The bills amounted to $2,000"
"The bill came to $2,000"
- verb. be tantamount or equivalent to
"Her action amounted to a rebellion"
Synonyms
measure, quantity, sum, total, come, number
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in amount:
Common word forms
amounts, amounted, amounter, amounting
Words from these letters
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