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Please help me know, what is the exact meaning of the following sentence and what could be the context where I would use it?

Not much of skyscraper by today’s standards, is it really?

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If you were to add "a" to it
"Not much of a skyscraper by today’s standards, is it really?" then it would be a comparison between a tall building but not massively so.
It would be a skyscraper (tall building) but not Burj Khalifa tall.

You could use it by saying "Canary Wharf is a tall building but not much of a skyscraper by today’s standards, is it really?"

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  • I was a few seconds late. I'll vote up your post -- you were first.
    – dcaswell
    Sep 10, 2013 at 3:56
  • thanks, doesn't bother me really once the person asking the question understands what we both wrote, essentially the same answer
    – Sean O'Donoghue
    Sep 10, 2013 at 3:58
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It should be:

Not much of a skyscraper by today’s standards, is it really?

And this sounds even better:

Not much of a skyscraper by today’s standards, is it?

The word "really" at the end sounds sort of awkward.

It means Compared to most skyscrapers today it's not very tall is it?

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