from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Having greater than ordinary height: a tall woman.
- adj. Having considerable height, especially in relation to width; lofty: tall trees.
- adj. Having a specified height: a plant three feet tall.
- adj. Informal Fanciful or exaggerated; boastful: tall tales of heroic exploits.
- adj. Impressively great or difficult: a tall order to fill.
- adj. Archaic Excellent; fine.
- adv. With proud bearing; straight: stand tall.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. obsequious; obedient
- adj. seemly; suitable; fitting, becoming, comely; attractive, handsome
- adj. bold; brave; courageous; valiant
- adj. fine; proper; admirable; great; excellent; being of more than average height
- adj. Having a vertical extent greater than the average. For example, somebody with a height of over 6 feet would generally be considered to be tall
- adj. Having its top a long way up; having a great vertical (and often greater than horizontal) extent; high
- adj. Hard to believe, such as a tall story or a tall tale
- adj. A cup of coffee smaller than grande, usually 8 ounces
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. 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.
- adj. Brave; bold; courageous.
- adj. Fine; splendid; excellent; also, extravagant; excessive.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Seemly; suitable; fitting; becoming; comely.
- Obsequious; obedient.
- Fine; proper; admirable; great; excellent.
- Bold; brave; courageous; valiant.
- High in proportion to breadth or diameter; lofty; having a relatively great stature.
- Having a particular height; measuring in stature (as specified): as, a man six feet tall.
- Long: used absolutely, or as noting length in a scale of measurement: as, a tall copy (of a book).
- Great; extraordinary; remarkable; extravagant: as, tall talk; a tall fight.
- Synonyms and High, Tall, Lofty. High is the most general of these words, and has some uses different from those of the others. When we say that a cloud is high, we may mean that it extends very far upward, or, more probably, that it is unusually far above the earth. Tall describes that which is slim in proportion to its height, as a mast, a pine or other tree, a steeple, a person, possibly a cliff: tall houses may be found in some parts of the world; a tall cloud would be of small width and great comparative height. Tall is also associated with height to which we are used or which we have come to regard as standard. A giant is tall, because so much taller than most men. Lofty denotes an imposing height: a room cannot well be tall, but may be high, or even lofty: as, the lofty arches of Westminster Hall. High and lofty may have application to moral or intellectual character; tall has not, except colloquially. Tall seems somewhat figurative when applied to that which does not live and grow.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. too improbable to admit of belief
- adj. lofty in style
- n. a garment size for a tall person
- adj. great in vertical dimension; high in stature
- adj. impressively difficult
Tall perennials Joe Pye weed and what we call the tall sunflower, rudbeckia lanciniata are joined by a single volunteer Datura metal.
"It's what I call a tall order, Burton," exclaimed Tom Ellison, who, with the Doctor, had been listening to the police officer's plan to raid the Cave of Hydas.
* Antitrinitarians; the peasantry are often extremely fond of hard and long words, which they call tall English.
"Please, Marse Herbert and Miss Cap, don't you tell ole marse nuffin 'tall 'bout my loosin' sight of you!" pleaded Wool.
Gary Firkins has managed to put it in -- tall, impossibly green corn.
Those students prominence Alabamas failure to sense preparation in tall school.
They can additionally be built in tall levels to illustrate creation them preferred for those gardeners with singular mobility.
You equate short with women (and minorities) and tall with men, and in the context of basketball – where being tall is in effect an intrinsic “talent”.
The culprit was described as a tall, dark officer, with black hair and a red coat faced with blue, thirty-eight years old, a veteran of frontier service.
Article is a bit funny, as observers on ground floors accuse observers in tall buildings of lying about feeling the earthquake.