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English adjective: tall | |||
| 1. | tall great in vertical dimension; high in stature | ||
| Samples | Tall people. Tall buildings. Tall trees. Tall ships. | ||
| Similar | gangling, gangly, in height, lanky, leggy, leggy, long, long-legged, long-shanked, long-stalked, rangy, stately, statuesque, tall-growing, tall-stalked, tallish | ||
| See also | big, high, large | ||
| Attribute | height, stature | ||
| Antonyms | short, little | ||
| 2. | tall lofty in style | ||
| Samples | He engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying. | ||
| Synonyms | grandiloquent, magniloquent | ||
| Similar | rhetorical | ||
| Antonyms | unrhetorical | ||
| 3. | tall impressively difficult | ||
| Samples | A tall order. | ||
| Similar | difficult, hard | ||
| Domain usage | colloquialism | ||
| Antonyms | easy | ||
| 4. | tall too improbable to admit of belief | ||
| Samples | A tall story. | ||
| Synonyms | improbable, marvellous, marvelous | ||
| Similar | incredible, unbelievable | ||
| Antonyms | believable, credible | ||
English noun: tall | |||
| 1. | tall (attribute) a garment size for a tall person | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | size | ||
Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
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