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- [tawl]
- /tɔl/
- /tɔːl/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [tawl]
- /tɔl/
Definitions of tall word
- adjective tall having a relatively great height; of more than average stature: a tall woman; tall grass. 1
- adjective tall having stature or height as specified: a man six feet tall. 1
- adjective tall large in amount or degree; considerable: a tall price; Swinging that deal is a tall order. 1
- adjective tall extravagant; difficult to believe: a tall tale. 1
- adjective tall high-flown; grandiloquent: He engages in so much tall talk, one never really knows what he's saying. 1
- adjective tall having more than usual length; long and relatively narrow: He carried a tall walking stick. 1
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Origin of tall
First appearance:
before 1000 One of the 6% oldest English words
before 1000; Middle English: big, bold, comely, proper, ready, Old English getæl (plural getale) quick, ready, competent; cognate with Old High German gizal quick
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Parts of speech for Tall
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
tall popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 97% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
tall usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for tall
adj tall
- altitudinous — pertaining to altitude or height
- big — A big person or thing is large in physical size.
- caricatural — a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things: His caricature of the mayor in this morning's paper is the best he's ever drawn.
- gangling — to move awkwardly or ungracefully: A tall, stiff-jointed man gangled past.
- gangly — gangling.
adjective tall
- elevated — Situated or placed higher than the surrounding area.
- embellished — Simple past tense and past participle of embellish.
- exaggerated — That has been described as greater than it actually is; abnormally increased or enlarged.
- length — the longest extent of anything as measured from end to end: the length of a river.
- mountainous — (of a region) having many mountains.
Antonyms for tall
adj tall
- bantam — A bantam is a breed of small chicken.
- bitsy — very small
- bitty — If you say that something is bitty, you mean that it seems to be formed from a lot of different parts which you think do not fit together or go together well.
- bottommost — lowest or most fundamental
- broomstick — A broomstick is an old-fashioned broom which has a bunch of small sticks at the end.
adjective tall
- baby — A baby is a very young child, especially one that cannot yet walk or talk.
- decurtate — Shortened, curtailed.
- dwarf — a person of abnormally small stature owing to a pathological condition, especially one suffering from cretinism or some other disease that produces disproportion or deformation of features and limbs.
- mitre — to bestow a miter upon, or raise to a rank entitled to it.
- niggardly — reluctant to give or spend; stingy; miserly.
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