tall

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: tall

1	adj n	great in vertical dimension; high in stature a garment size for a tall person
2	adj	too improbable to admit of belief

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: tall

“tall people”

“tall buildings”

“tall trees”

“tall ships”

Synonyms: high
(literal meaning) being at or having a relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension (sometimes used in combinations like `knee-high'); big, large
above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent; gangling, gangly, lanky, rangy
tall and thin and having long slender limbs; in height
having a specified height; leggy, long-legged, long-shanked
having long legs; leggy, tall-growing
(of plants) having tall spindly stems; long
of relatively great height; long-stalked, tall-stalked
of plants having relatively long stalks; stately, statuesque
of size and dignity suggestive of a statue; tallish
somewhat tall

Antonyms:: little, short
low in stature; not tall; low
literal meanings; being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension; chunky, dumpy, low-set, squat, squatty, stumpy
short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature; compact, heavyset, stocky, thick, thickset
having a short and solid form or stature; half-length
representing only the upper half of the body; pint-size, pint-sized, runty, sawed-off, sawn-off
well below average height; short-stalked
of plants having relatively short stalks; squab, squabby
short and fat; show more antonyms...

“he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying”

“a tall order”

Synonyms: difficult, hard
not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure

Type of:: size
the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing)

“a tall story”

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