amounting Definition

amount
noun

1. A quantity; a total or extent.

Example: a large amount of money
Example: didn't put in a great amount of effort
Thesaurus: total, whole, entirety, lot, expanse, number, measure, sum, supply, mass, volume.

verb

amounted, amounting
1. To be equal to it or add up to it in size, number, significance, etc.

Example: Their assets amounted to several millions
Example: If you don't study, you'll never amount to anything
Thesaurus: add up to, come to, equal, total, be tantamount to, be equivalent to, become, purport.
Form: amount to something (always)

Idiom: any amount of something

colloq
A great deal of it.

Idiom: no amount of something

colloq
Not even the greatest imaginable quantity of it.
Example: No amount of evidence could have persuaded him otherwise

Etymology: 14c: from French amonter to climb up.