Crossword clues for tallest
tallest
- Word for Chicago's Sears building
- Swedish performer The ___ Man on Earth
- Rising the highest, as a skyscraper
- Most towering
- Most exaggerated, as a tale
- Most exaggerated
- Lincoln, of all the presidents
- Like the twin towers of N.Y
- Like the Taipei 101 skyscraper
- Like the Burj Khalifa, of all buildings
- Like the Burj Khalifa, among buildings
- Like Margo Dydek, among all WNBA pros so far
- Like a basketball team's center, usually
- High to the max
- Everest adjective
- Closest to heaven, in a way
- Burj Khalifa building, currently
- Adjective for Burj Khalifa
- Above all the rest?
- Most difficult to believe
- Guinness Book category
- Guinness superlative
- Like the Burj Khalifa among all the buildings in the world
- See 9-Down
- An adjective for Sears Tower
- Describing Sears Tower
- Adjective for Chicago's Sears Tower
- Adjective for redwoods
- Higher than any other
- Most fanciful
- Most farfetched
- Greatest in height
- Of the greatest height
- Most lofty
- Greatest in stature
- Adjective for Everest
- Above it all, in a way
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tall \Tall\, a. [Compar. Taller; superl. Tallest.] [OE. tal seemly, elegant, docile (?); of uncertain origin; cf. AS. un-tala, un-tale, bad, Goth. untals indocile, disobedient, uninstructed, or W. & Corn. tal high, Ir. talla meet, fit, proper, just.]
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High in stature; having a considerable, or an unusual, extension upward; long and comparatively slender; having the diameter or lateral extent small in proportion to the height; as, a tall person, tree, or mast.
Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall.
--Milton. -
Brave; bold; courageous. [Obs.]
As tall a trencherman As e'er demolished a pye fortification.
--Massinger.His companions, being almost in despair of victory, were suddenly recomforted by Sir William Stanley, which came to succors with three thousand tall men.
--Grafton. -
Fine; splendid; excellent; also, extravagant; excessive. [Obs. or Slang]
--B. Jonson.Syn: High; lofty.
Usage: Tall, High, Lofty. High is the generic term, and is applied to anything which is elevated or raised above another thing. Tall specifically describes that which has a small diameter in proportion to its height; hence, we speak of a tall man, a tall steeple, a tall mast, etc., but not of a tall hill. Lofty has a special reference to the expanse above us, and denotes an imposing height; as, a lofty mountain; a lofty room. Tall is now properly applied only to physical objects; high and lofty have a moral acceptation; as, high thought, purpose, etc.; lofty aspirations; a lofty genius. Lofty is the stronger word, and is usually coupled with the grand or admirable.
Wiktionary
a. (en-superlative of: tall)
Usage examples of "tallest".
The tallest of them, StOmer, stood high above the others, its conical snowcap already glowing a musky white as it guarded the northeastern extremity of the range.
The Sanchex mansion a great gray pyramid covered the tallest peak to the north.
For a long while, these beautiful mansions had stood empty on top of these sculpted peaks, the splendid forests and meadows had grown wild, and every extraordinary city on the Earth had swollen until there was only the one megalopolis encircling the globe, its tallest buildings rising to the edges of the atmosphere, thus gazing down at the once-lofty peaks of the old estates.
Trees began to arch over the water, the tallest ones touching above midstream, their twigs starting to interlace.
The golden rapier-blade shape was among the tallest of the skyscrapers that dominated the downtown cityscape of Salamanca.
Mark did his best not to stare at the tallest of them, a lean man wearing a kilt and white T-shirt.
The smallest of the three, a willowy brunette, and the tallest, a big muscular blonde, appeared to take their cues from the third woman, whose salt-and-pepper hair made her appear older.
The tallest building in the keep, and the only one built of stone, obviously the temple, stood in the far left corner of the courtyard, intact except for what must have been a wooden bell tower at the top.
Despite damage to parts of its structure, the castle stood several stories by any measurement and remained among the tallest buildings in the Realms.
Once the party had passed through the gates, Andreas bade the visitors a temporary goodbye, and himself went on toward the building that Schoenberg took to be the Temple proper, the tallest structure, some twelve or fifteen meters high, with broad white steps and forbidding doors.
The ship was directly over the city now, drifting ballon-like on silent engines only a few meters above the tallest rooftops.
Dragging the tallest chair I could find over to the shelves, I stood atop it and reached for the coffer.
Hyacinthe shifted his gaze toward the central fire, where the tents stood tallest, the wagons were brightest, and the finest horses in the paddocks.
I had taken our landmarks from atop the tallest hill, and studied them against the map Ysandre had provided us-a luxury, after the Skaldic wilderness.
The contrary winds, one moment ago a mild phenomenon, turned to forces of destruction, boiling the sea into crests and troughs higher than our tallest mast.