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

1. A garment size for a tall person
   "The tall size in pants was perfect for his long legs"

Derived forms: talls, tallest, taller

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

Type of: size

Antonym: little

Encyclopedia: Tall, Tall Trees