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 →

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 →
• A tallish tree stood by the gate. tree →
• The stranger was tallish and thin. tree →
• We need a tallish jar for the flowers. tree →
• My teacher is tallish. tree →
• A tallish heron waded in the shallows. tree →

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, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.