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tallest |
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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