tall
a garment size for a tall person
• Hypernyms:
size
1. great in vertical dimension;
high in stature (Freq. 73)
- tall people
- tall buildings
- tall trees
- tall ships
• Ant:
short
• Similar to:
gangling, gangly, lanky, rangy, in height,
leggy, long-legged, long-shanked, tall-growing, long, long-stalked,
tall-stalked, stately, statuesque, tallish
• See Also:
large, big, high
• Derivationally related forms:
tallness
• Attrubites:
stature, height
2. lofty in style
- he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying
• Syn:
grandiloquent, magniloquent
• Similar to:
rhetorical
• Derivationally related forms:
magniloquence (for: magniloquent), grandiloquence (for: grandiloquent)
3. too improbable to admit of belief
- a tall story
• Syn:
improbable, marvelous, marvellous
• Similar to:
incredible, unbelievable
• Derivationally related forms:
improbableness (for: improbable)
4. impressively difficult
- a tall order
• Similar to:
difficult, hard
• Usage Domain:
colloquialism
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