taller
更高的,较高的,高大的,更高的人
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Definitions
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tall·er, tall·est.
- : having a relatively great height; of more than average stature: a tall woman; tall grass.
- : having stature or height as specified: a man six feet tall.
- : large in amount or degree; considerable: a tall price; Swinging that deal is a tall order.
- : extravagant; difficult to believe: a tall tale.
- : high-flown; grandiloquent: He engages in so much tall talk, one never really knows what he's saying.
- : having more than usual length; long and relatively narrow: He carried a tall walking stick.
- : Archaic. valiant.
- : Obsolete. seemly; proper.fine; handsome.
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- : in a proud, confident, or erect manner: to stand tall; to walk tall.
Phrases
- tall order
- tall tale
- walk tall
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
He could not have imagined that buildings taller than mountains would one day crowd the island.
Tim Krul, the substitute goalie, seemed a good foot taller than Jasper Cillessen, the man he replaced, and much the more daunting.
We walked through wheat fields taller than our heads and on raised narrow paths between rice paddies.
Even sitting down, he is perceptibly taller and wider than the older players.
She, slightly taller, is arrayed all in white—creamy slacks and a virgin wool sweater.
But just wishing never made anyone larger or taller, not even a pig, and Squinty stayed the same size.
Her tall figure—she was taller than he by at least three inches—was beautiful in its commanding, yet not vulgar, self-possession.
His slight, thin, rather graceless figure seemed suddenly to expand, even to grow taller.
Half an inch taller than Kerry, she fully merited the compliment designed by that trite apothegm, "a fine woman."
The taller buried her face for a moment in the red Jaqueminots and drank in their fragrance.