Synonyms of the word tall


TALLBIG - DIFFICULT - FULL-LENGTH - GANGLING - GANGLY - GRANDILOQUENT - HARD - HIGH - IMPROBABLE - INCREDIBLE - LANKY - LARGE - LEGGY - LONG - LONG-LEGGED - MAGNILOQUENT - MARVELLOUS - MARVELOUS - RANGY - RHETORICAL - SIZE - STATELY - STATUESQUE - TALLISH - UNBELIEVABLE

tall

  • adj. (of a person) Having a vertical extent greater than the average. For example, somebody with a height of…
  • adj. (of a building, etc.) Having its top a long way up; having a great vertical (and often greater than horizontal)…
  • adj. (of a story) Hard to believe, such as a tall story or a tall tale.
  • adj. (chiefly US, of a cup of coffee) A cup of coffee smaller than grande, usually 8 ounces.
  • adj. (obsolete) Obsequious; obedient.
  • adj. (obsolete) Seemly; suitable; fitting, becoming, comely; attractive, handsome.
  • adj. (obsolete) Bold; brave; courageous; valiant.
  • adj. (archaic) Fine; proper; admirable; great; excellent.

big

  • adj. Of great size, large.
  • adj. (of an industry or other field) Thought to have undue influence.
  • adj. Popular.
  • adj. (informal) Adult.
  • adj. (informal) Fat.
  • adj. (informal) Important or significant.
  • adj. (informal, with on) Enthusiastic (about).
  • adj. (informal) Mature, conscientious, principled.
  • adj. (informal) Well-endowed, possessing large breasts in the case of a woman or a large penis in the case…
  • adj. (sometimes figuratively) Large with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce.
  • adj. (informal) Used as an intensifier, especially of negative-valence nouns.
  • adj. (of a city) populous.
  • adv. In a loud manner.
  • adv. In a boasting manner.
  • adv. In a large amount or to a large extent.
  • adv. On a large scale, expansively.
  • adv. Hard.
  • n. Someone or something that is large in stature.
  • n. An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name.
  • n. (as plural) The big leagues, big time.
  • v. (transitive) To praise or recommend.
  • v. (transitive, archaic or Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) to inhabit; occupy.
  • v. (reflexive, archaic or Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) to locate oneself.
  • v. (transitive, archaic or Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) to build; erect; fashion.
  • v. (intransitive, archaic or Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) to dwell; have a dwelling.
  • n. One or more kinds of barley, especially six-rowed barley.

difficult

  • adj. Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.
  • adj. (often of a person, or a horse, etc) Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome.
  • adj. (obsolete) Unable or unwilling.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To make difficult; to impede; to perplex.

full-length

  • adj. Not shortened; complete and uncut.
  • adj. (of clothing) Covering the full height of the body.
  • adj. (art, of a painting or sculpture) Representing the full height of the body.
  • adj. At full stretch, requiring the whole body.

gangling

  • adj. Awkwardly tall and thin, ungraceful.
  • n. (nonce word, nonstandard) A member of a gang.

gangly

  • adj. Tall and thin, especially so as to cause physical awkwardness.

grandiloquent

  • adj. (of a person, their language or writing) given to using language in a showy way by using an excessive…

hard

  • adj. (of material or fluid) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
  • adj. (personal or social) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
  • adj. Unquestionable.
  • adj. (of a road intersection) Having a comparatively larger or a ninety-degree angle.
  • adj. (slang, vulgar, of a male) Sexually aroused.
  • adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscles that are tightened as a result of intense, regular exercise.
  • adj. (phonetics, not comparable).
  • adj. (art) Having a severe property; presenting a barrier to enjoyment.
  • adj. (not comparable) In the form of a hard copy.
  • adv. (manner) With much force or effort.
  • adv. (manner) With difficulty.
  • adv. (obsolete) So as to raise difficulties.
  • adv. (manner) Compactly.
  • adv. (now archaic) Near, close.
  • n. (countable, nautical) A firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water.
  • n. (uncountable, drugs, colloquial, slang) crack cocaine.

high

  • adj. Very elevated; extending or being far above a base; tall; lofty.
  • adj. Relatively elevated; rising or raised above the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.
  • adj. Having a specified elevation or height; tall.
  • adj. Elevated in status, esteem, prestige; exalted in rank, station, or character.
  • adj. Of great importance and consequence: grave (if negative) or solemn (if positive).
  • adj. Consummate; advanced (e.g. in development) to the utmost extent or culmination, or possessing a quality…
  • adj. (in several set phrases) Remote in distance or time.
  • adj. (in several set phrases) Very traditionalist and conservative, especially in favoring older ways of doing…
  • adj. Elevated in mood; marked by great merriment, excitement, etc.
  • adj. (of a lifestyle) Luxurious; rich.
  • adj. Lofty, often to the point of arrogant, haugty, boastful, proud.
  • adj. (of a body of water) With tall waves.
  • adj. Large, great (in quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
  • adj. (acoustics) Acute or shrill in pitch, due to being of greater frequency, i.e. produced by more rapid vibrations…
  • adj. (phonetics) Made with some part of the tongue positioned high in the mouth, relatively close to the palate.
  • adj. (card games) Greater in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.
  • adj. (of meat, especially venison) Strong-scented; slightly tainted/spoiled; beginning to decompose.
  • adj. (slang) Intoxicated; under the influence of a mood-altering drug, formerly (until the early 20th century)…
  • adj. (nautical, of a sailing ship) Near, in its direction of travel, to the (direction of the) wind.
  • adv. In or to an elevated position.
  • adv. In or at a great value.
  • adv. In a pitch of great frequency.
  • n. A period of euphoria, from excitement or from an intake of drugs.
  • n. A drug that gives such a high.
  • n. (informal) A large area of elevated atmospheric pressure; an anticyclone.
  • n. The maximum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period.
  • n. An elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven.
  • n. (card games) The highest card dealt or drawn.
  • v. (obsolete) To rise.
  • n. (obsolete) Thought; intention; determination; purpose.
  • v. To hie; to hasten.

improbable

  • adj. Not likely to be true.
  • adj. Not likely to happen.

incredible

  • adj. Too implausible to be credible; beyond belief; unbelievable.
  • adj. Amazing; astonishing; awe-inspiring.
  • adj. Marvellous; profoundly affecting; wonderful.

lanky

  • adj. (informal) Tall, slim, and rather ungraceful or awkward.

large

  • adj. Of considerable or relatively great size or extent.
  • adj. (obsolete) Abundant; ample.
  • adj. (archaic) Full in statement; diffuse; profuse.
  • adj. (obsolete) Free; unencumbered.
  • adj. (obsolete) Unrestrained by decorum; said of language.
  • adj. (nautical) Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; said of the wind when it is…
  • n. (music, obsolete) An old musical note, equal to two longas, four breves, or eight semibreves.
  • n. (obsolete) Liberality, generosity.
  • n. (slang, plural: large) A thousand dollars/pounds.
  • n. A large serving of something.

leggy

  • adj. (Britain, US, chiefly of a woman) Having long, attractive legs; long-legged.
  • adj. (slang, chiefly of a woman) Exposing the bare or pantyhose-clad legs, especially the thighs.
  • adj. Taller or longer than usual.

long

  • adj. Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point (usually…
  • adj. Having great duration.
  • adj. Seemingly lasting a lot of time, because it is boring or tedious or tiring.
  • adj. (Britain, dialect) Not short; tall.
  • adj. (finance) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities or other financial instruments with the aim…
  • adj. (cricket) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent…
  • adj. (tennis, of a ball or a shot) That land beyond the baseline (and therefore is out).
  • adj. Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
  • adv. Over a great distance in space.
  • adv. For a particular duration.
  • adv. For a long duration.
  • n. (linguistics) A long vowel.
  • n. (programming) A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short,…
  • n. (finance) An entity with a long position in an asset.
  • n. (music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
  • v. (transitive, finance) To take a long position in.
  • v. (intransitive) To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true).
  • adj. (archaic) On account of, because of.
  • v. (archaic) To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to.
  • n. longitude.

long-legged

  • adj. Having long legs.
  • adj. 2 Aircraft or ship having large operational range."The pilots were flying planes that were not only light…

magniloquent

  • adj. Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent.

marvellous

  • adj. (Britain) Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful.

marvelous

  • adj. (US) Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful.

rangy

  • adj. Slender and long of limb; lanky.
  • adj. Prone to roaming around.
  • adj. Having or permitting range or scope; roomy; commodious.

rhetorical

  • adj. Part of or similar to rhetoric, the use of language as a means to persuade.
  • adj. Not earnest, or presented only for the purpose of an argument.

size

  • n. (obsolete outside dialects) An assize.
  • n. (obsolete) A regulation determining the amount of money paid in fees, taxes etc.
  • n. (obsolete) A fixed standard for the magnitude, quality, quantity etc. of goods, especially food and drink.
  • n. The dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is.
  • n. (obsolete) A regulation, piece of ordinance.
  • n. A specific set of dimensions for a manufactured article, especially clothing.
  • n. (graph theory) A number of edges in a graph.
  • n. (figuratively, dated) Degree of rank, ability, character, etc.
  • n. An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, used…
  • v. (transitive) To adjust the size of; to make a certain size.
  • v. (transitive) To classify or arrange by size.
  • v. (transitive, colloquial) To approximate the dimensions, estimate the size of.
  • v. (intransitive) To take a greater size; to increase in size.
  • v. (Britain, Cambridge University slang, obsolete) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To swell; to increase the bulk of.
  • n. A thin, weak glue used as primer for paper or canvas intended to be painted upon.
  • n. Wallpaper paste.
  • n. The thickened crust on coagulated blood.
  • n. Any viscous substance, such as gilder's varnish.
  • v. (transitive) To apply glue or other primer to a surface which is to be painted.

stately

  • adj. (of people) regal, dignified; worthy of respect.
  • adj. (of movement) dignified; deliberate, unhurried.
  • adj. Imposing; grand, impressive.
  • adv. In a stately manner.

statuesque

  • adj. Like a statue.
  • adj. (of a woman) Elegantly tall, graceful, and attractive.

tallish

  • adj. somewhat tall.

unbelievable

  • adj. Not to be believed.
  • adj. Incredible; so surprising it is almost unable to believe.
  • adj. Implausible or improbable.

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