Tall

Adjective

 * 1)  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
 * 2)  Having its top a long way up; having a great vertical (and often greater than horizontal) extent; high
 * 3)  Hard to believe, such as a tall story or a tall tale
 * 4)  A cup of coffee smaller than grande, usually 8 ounces
 * 5)  obsequious; obedient
 * 6)  seemly; suitable; fitting, becoming, comely; attractive, handsome
 * 7)  bold; brave; courageous; valiant
 * 8)  fine; proper; admirable; great; excellent; being of more than average height

Adverbs for Tall
slenderly; extraordinarily; splendidly; handsomely; lankily; absurdly; magnificently; commandingly; cadaverously; gauntly; awkwardly; laughably; gawkily; consciously; proudly; admirably; wonderfully; amazingly; unfortunately; ungainly; immeasurably; unusually; incredibly; attractively; conveniently.

Thesaurus
huge, implausible, improbable, inconceivable, incredible, inflated, inkhorn, interminable, 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, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, 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, 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,

Etymology
From tall:, talle:, tal:, from  *undefined:, getæl:, from, from. Cognate with tal:,  tel:,  gital:,  gizal:,  𐌿𐌽𐍄𐌰𐌻𐍃:.

Antonyms

 * short
 * short, low, low-rise

Derived terms

 * stand tall


 * tall in the saddle


 * tall tale

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Breton:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 高
 * Min Nan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Hebrew: גבוה
 * Hindi: ऊंचा or ऊँचा
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 背が高い,  背の高い
 * Korean: 키가 큰
 * Polish:
 * Russian:, рослый
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: lång
 * Urdu: اونچا
 * Vietnamese: cao (高)


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: высокі
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Min Nan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: גבוה
 * Hindi: or
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:


 * Javanese: dhuwur
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian:
 * Marathi: लंबाटा, ट्या
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: висок, visok
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: hög
 * Telugu: పొడుగు
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: لمبا
 * Vietnamese: cao (高)


 * Dutch: ongeloofwaardig


 * Swedish: lång

Verb

 * 1) to laugh at
 * 2) to mock

Noun

 * 1) cut

Etymology
talea:

Noun

 * 1) lamb

Noun

 * 1) number (abstract entity)

Adverb

 * 1) there
 * Is bec ndi dechur fil etarru siu ⁊ tall. – "There is little difference between them here and there."
 * 1) then
 * amal du·ratsat sacaird tall bendachta forsin popul – "as the priests had blessed the people then"

Descendants

 * Irish:
 * Scottish Gaelic:

Determiner

 * 1) that
 * a tadall tall – "that visit"

Noun

 * 1) pine, Scots Pine tree, Pinus sylvestris

Related terms

 * tallkotte
 * tallväxter

Synonyms

 * fura
 * fur