'Tall' definitions:
Definition of 'tall'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Great in vertical dimension; high in stature; "tall people"; "tall buildings"; "tall trees"; "tall ships" [ant: little, short]
adjective
Lofty in style; "he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying" [syn: grandiloquent, magniloquent, tall]
adjective
Impressively difficult; "a tall order"
adjective
noun
A garment size for a tall person
Definition of 'Tall'
From: GCIDE
- Tall \Tall\, a. [Compar. Taller; superl. Tallest.] [OE. tal seemly, elegant, docile (?); of uncertain origin; cf. AS. un-tala, un-tale, bad, Goth. untals indocile, disobedient, uninstructed, or W. & Corn. tal high, Ir. talla meet, fit, proper, just.]
- 1. High in stature; having a considerable, or an unusual, extension upward; long and comparatively slender; having the diameter or lateral extent small in proportion to the height; as, a tall person, tree, or mast. [1913 Webster]
- Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Brave; bold; courageous. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- As tall a trencherman As e'er demolished a pye fortification. --Massinger. [1913 Webster]
- His companions, being almost in despair of victory, were suddenly recomforted by Sir William Stanley, which came to succors with three thousand tall men. --Grafton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Fine; splendid; excellent; also, extravagant; excessive. [Obs. or Slang] --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: High; lofty.
- Usage: Tall, High, Lofty. High is the generic term, and is applied to anything which is elevated or raised above another thing. Tall specifically describes that which has a small diameter in proportion to its height; hence, we speak of a tall man, a tall steeple, a tall mast, etc., but not of a tall hill. Lofty has a special reference to the expanse above us, and denotes an imposing height; as, a lofty mountain; a lofty room. Tall is now properly applied only to physical objects; high and lofty have a moral acceptation; as, high thought, purpose, etc.; lofty aspirations; a lofty genius. Lofty is the stronger word, and is usually coupled with the grand or admirable. [1913 Webster] Tallage
Synonyms of 'tall'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a bit thick,
- a bit thin,
- a mile long,
- absurd,
- affected,
- altitudinous,
- bedizened,
- beyond belief,
- big,
- big-sounding,
- bombastic,
- bumper,
- colossal,
- considerable,
- convoluted,
- declamatory,
- doubtable,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- dubitable,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- exaggerated,
- extensive,
- extravagant,
- far-flung,
- far-reaching,
- fargoing,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- fulsome,
- gangling,
- gangly,
- garish,
- gassy,
- gaudy,
- giant,
- gigantic,
- Gongoresque,
- goodly,
- grand,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- great,
- hard of belief,
- hard to believe,
- healthy,
- high,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-reaching,
- high-sounding,
- high-swelling,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- huge,
- implausible,
- improbable,
- inconceivable,
- incredible,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- interminable,
- Johnsonian,
- labyrinthine,
- lank,
- lanky,
- large,
- large-scale,
- leggy,
- lengthy,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- long,
- long-legged,
- longish,
- longsome,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- man-sized,
- meretricious,
- no end of,
- not deserving belief,
- numerous,
- open to doubt,
- open to suspicion,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- outrageous,
- overblown,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- passing belief,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- preposterous,
- pretentious,
- problematic,
- questionable,
- rangy,
- rhetorical,
- ridiculous,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- sesquipedal,
- sesquipedalian,
- showy,
- sizable,
- sky-high,
- skyscraping,
- soaring,
- sonorous,
- staggering belief,
- statuesque,
- steep,
- stilted,
- substantial,
- suspect,
- suspicious,
- swollen,
- thick,
- thin,
- tidy,
- tortuous,
- towering,
- unbelievable,
- unconvincing,
- unearthly,
- ungodly,
- unimaginable,
- unthinkable,
- unworthy of belief,
- windy,
- without end
Words containing 'Tall'
- Tallness,
- tall bellflower,
- tall bilberry,
- tall buttercup,
- tall crowfoot,
- tall cupflower,
- tall goldenrod,
- tall mallow,
- tall oil,
- tall order,
- tall story,
- tall sunflower,
- tall tale,
- tall field buttercup,
- tall gallberry holly,
- tall meadow grass,
- tall oat grass,
- tall white violet,
- tall-grass,
- tall-growing,
- tall-stalked,
- tall yellow-eye