1. Great in vertical dimension; high in stature
   "tall people"; "tall buildings"; "tall trees"; "tall ships" 
2. Lofty in style
   "he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying"
   - grandiloquent, magniloquent 
3. Impressively difficult
   "a tall order" 
4. Too improbable to admit of belief
   "a tall story"
   - improbable, marvelous [US], marvellous [Brit, Cdn]

1. A garment size for a tall person

Derived forms: tallest, talls, taller

See also: big, difficult, gangling, gangly, hard, height, high, in height, incredible, lanky, large, leggy, long, long-legged, long-shanked, long-stalked, rangy, rhetorical, stately, statuesque, stature, tall-growing, tallish, tallness, tall-stalked, unbelievable

Type of: size

Antonym: short

Encyclopedia: Tall, Dark, & Handcuffed Tall Tall, Dark, Handsome Stranger Tall, Dark Handsome Stranger Tall, Dark & Handcuffed

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