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tall |
Grep of noun tall bookstall coffee stall fingerstall footstall frontstall headstall shower stall stall tall bellflower tall bilberry tall buttercup tall crowfoot tall cupflower tall field buttercup tall gallberry holly tall goldenrod tall mallow tall meadow grass tall oat grass tall oil tall order tall sunflower tall tale tall white violet tall yellow-eye tallahassee tallboy tallchief talleyrand tallgrass tallinn tallis tallith tallness tallow tallow oil tallulah bankhead tally tally clerk tallyman thumbstall Overview of adj tall The adj tall has 4 senses (first 1 from tagged texts) 1. (74) tall -- (great in vertical dimension; high in stature; "tall people"; "tall buildings"; "tall trees"; "tall ships") 2. grandiloquent, magniloquent, tall -- (lofty in style; "he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying") 3. tall -- ((informal) impressively difficult; "a tall order") 4. improbable, marvelous, marvellous, tall -- (too improbable to admit of belief; "a tall story") Antonyms of adj tall 4 senses of tall Sense 1 tall (vs. short) short (vs. tall) => chunky, dumpy, low-set, squat, squatty, stumpy => half-length => pint-size, pint-sized, runty, sawed-off => squab, squabby Sense 2 grandiloquent, magniloquent, tall INDIRECT (VIA rhetorical) -> unrhetorical Sense 3 tall(postnominal) INDIRECT (VIA difficult) -> easy Sense 4 improbable, marvelous, marvellous, tall(postnominal) INDIRECT (VIA incredible) -> credible, believable Similarity of adj tall 4 senses of tall Sense 1 tall (vs. short) => full-length => gangling, gangly, lanky, rangy => in height(prenominal) => leggy, long-legged, long-shanked => leggy, tall-growing => long => stately, statuesque => tallish Also See-> large#1, big#1; high#2 Sense 2 grandiloquent, magniloquent, tall => rhetorical (vs. unrhetorical) Sense 3 tall(postnominal) => difficult (vs. easy), hard Sense 4 improbable, marvelous, marvellous, tall(postnominal) => incredible (vs. credible), unbelievable Attributes of adj tall 1 of 4 senses of tall Sense 1 tall (vs. short) => stature, height Familiarity of adj tall tall used as an adjective is uncommon (polysemy count = 4) Grep of adj tall tall tall-growing tallish Overview of adj tall The adj tall has 4 senses (first 1 from tagged texts) 1. (74) tall -- (great in vertical dimension; high in stature; "tall people"; "tall buildings"; "tall trees"; "tall ships") 2. grandiloquent, magniloquent, tall -- (lofty in style; "he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying") 3. tall -- ((informal) impressively difficult; "a tall order") 4. improbable, marvelous, marvellous, tall -- (too improbable to admit of belief; "a tall story")
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