tallness
101height — [n1] altitude, top part acme, apex, apogee, brow, ceiling, crest, crown, cusp, elevation, extent, highness, hill, loftiness, mountain, peak, pinnacle, pitch, prominence, rise, solstice, stature, summit, tallness, tip, tiptop, vertex, zenith;… …
102length — [n] extent of object, distance, time breadth, compass, continuance, diameter, dimension, duration, elongation, endlessness, expanse, expansion, extensiveness, height, interval, lastingness, lengthiness, limit, linearity, loftiness, longitude,… …
103stature — [n] importance ability, cachet, caliber, capacity, competence, consequence, development, dignity, elevation, eminence, growth, merit, position, prestige, prominence, qualification, quality, rank, size, standing, state, station, status, tallness,… …
104width — [n] breadth, wideness of some amount amplitude, area, broadness, compass, cross measure, diameter, distance across, expanse, extent, girth, measure, range, reach, scope, span, squatness, stretch, thickness; concepts 760,788,792 Ant. height,… …
105tall — ► ADJECTIVE 1) of great or more than average height. 2) measuring a specified distance from top to bottom. 3) fanciful and difficult to believe; unlikely: a tall story. ● a tall order Cf. ↑a tall order DERIVATIVES …
106tallish — tall ► ADJECTIVE 1) of great or more than average height. 2) measuring a specified distance from top to bottom. 3) fanciful and difficult to believe; unlikely: a tall story. ● a tall order Cf. ↑a tall order DERIVATIVES …
107high — [OE] High is an ancient word. It goes right back to Indo European *koukos, which is related to a number of terms denoting roughly ‘rounded protuberance’: Sanskrit kucas ‘breast’, for instance, Russian húcha ‘heap’, and Lithuanian kaukas ‘swelling …
108Cro-Magnon — [krō mag′nən, krōman′yən] adj. [after the Cro Magnon cave, Dordogne department, SW France, where remains were discovered] belonging to a prehistoric, Caucasoid type of human who lived on the European continent, distinguished by tallness and erect …
109tall — [tôl] adj. [ME tal, dexterous, seemly < OE (ge)tæl, swift, prompt, akin to OHG gizal, swift < IE base * del , to aim > TALE, TELL1] 1. of more than normal height or stature [a tall man, a tall building] 2. having a specified height [five …
110loftiness — noun 1. the quality of being high or lofty • Syn: ↑highness • Ant: ↑lowness (for: ↑highness) • Derivationally related forms: ↑lofty, ↑high …
