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tall

adjective

1 a tall, thin man:

big, high, large, huge, towering;

colossal, gigantic, giant, monstrous, giant-size, Brobdingnagian;

lanky, rangy, gangling, leggy, long-legged;

informal long.

▷antonyms short, small.

2 tall buildings:

high, big, lofty, towering, soaring, elevated, sky-high, sky-scraping;

multistorey.

▷antonyms low.

3 he's about 5 foot 8 inches tall:

in height, high, from head to toe/foot.

▷antonyms wide.

4 a tall tale:

unlikely, improbable, exaggerated, far-fetched, implausible, dubious, overblown, unbelievable, incredible, preposterous, outrageous, absurd;

embroidered, dishonest, untrue;

informal cock and bull.

▷antonyms believable, credible.

5 they thought that the deadline was a tall order:

demanding, exacting, difficult, unreasonable, exorbitant, impossible.

▷antonyms easy.

tall Oxford Dictionary of English