| ascendancy | | |
| n. (state) | 1. ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, control, dominance | the state that exists when one person or group has power over another.; "her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her" |
| ~ condition, status | a state at a particular time.; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations" |
| ~ ascendant, ascendent | position or state of being dominant or in control.; "that idea was in the ascendant" |
| ~ supremacy, domination, mastery | power to dominate or defeat.; "mastery of the seas" |
| ~ predominance, predomination, prepotency | the state of being predominant over others. |
| ~ dominion, rule | dominance or power through legal authority.; "France held undisputed dominion over vast areas of Africa"; "the rule of Caesar" |
| ~ regulation | the state of being controlled or governed. |
| ~ absolutism, despotism, tyranny | dominance through threat of punishment and violence. |
| ~ monopoly | exclusive control or possession of something.; "They have no monopoly on intelligence" |
| tall | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. tall | a garment size for a tall person. |
| ~ size | the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing).; "he wears a size 13 shoe" |
| adj. | 2. tall | great in vertical dimension; high in stature.; "tall people"; "tall buildings"; "tall trees"; "tall ships" |
| ~ high | (literal meaning) being at or having a relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension (sometimes used in combinations like `knee-high').; "a high mountain"; "high ceilings"; "high buildings"; "a high forehead"; "a high incline"; "a foot high" |
| ~ big, large | above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent.; "a large city"; "set out for the big city"; "a large sum"; "a big (or large) barn"; "a large family"; "big businesses"; "a big expenditure"; "a large number of newspapers"; "a big group of scientists"; "large areas of the world" |
| ~ gangling, gangly, lanky, rangy | tall and thin and having long slender limbs.; "a gangling teenager"; "a lanky kid transformed almost overnight into a handsome young man" |
| ~ in height | having a specified height.; "five feet tall"; "five feet in height" |
| ~ long-legged, long-shanked, leggy | having long legs. |
| ~ leggy, tall-growing | (of plants) having tall spindly stems. |
| ~ long | of relatively great height.; "a race of long gaunt men"; "looked out the long French windows" |
| ~ long-stalked, tall-stalked | of plants having relatively long stalks. |
| ~ statuesque, stately | of size and dignity suggestive of a statue. |
| ~ tallish | somewhat tall. |
| adj. | 3. grandiloquent, magniloquent, tall | lofty in style.; "he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying" |
| ~ rhetorical | given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought.; "mere rhetorical frippery" |
| adj. | 4. tall | impressively difficult.; "a tall order" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ difficult, hard | not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure.; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?" |
| adj. | 5. improbable, marvellous, marvelous, tall | too improbable to admit of belief.; "a tall story" |
| ~ incredible, unbelievable | beyond belief or understanding.; "at incredible speed"; "the book's plot is simply incredible" |
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