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# tallish

«tallish» in Mova's school dictionary: **Fairly tall; a bit taller than average** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (tallish)

### meaning for a pupil

Fairly tall; a bit taller than average. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tallish/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Used in describing people and things in stories and everyday life. The ending -ish means «a bit» or «rather»: tallish, smallish, brownish. It gives a rough, not exact, size.

### examples

- He's a tallish boy with red hair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tallish/#x1)
- A tallish tree stood by the gate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tallish/#x2)
- The stranger was tallish and thin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tallish/#x3)
- We need a tallish jar for the flowers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tallish/#x4)
- My teacher is tallish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tallish/#x5)
- A tallish heron waded in the shallows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tallish/#x6)

### note

Informal; -ish makes the meaning less exact. Not used for exact measuring in maths: say the height in centimetres or inches instead.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tallish» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tallish/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.