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- [tawl]
- /tɔl/
- /tɔːl/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [tawl]
- /tɔl/
Definitions of tallness word
- adjective tallness having a relatively great height; of more than average stature: a tall woman; tall grass. 1
- adjective tallness having stature or height as specified: a man six feet tall. 1
- adjective tallness large in amount or degree; considerable: a tall price; Swinging that deal is a tall order. 1
- adjective tallness extravagant; difficult to believe: a tall tale. 1
- adjective tallness high-flown; grandiloquent: He engages in so much tall talk, one never really knows what he's saying. 1
- adjective tallness having more than usual length; long and relatively narrow: He carried a tall walking stick. 1
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Origin of tallness
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 Tallness
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
tallness 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.
According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.
tallness usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for tallness
noun tallness
- height — extent or distance upward: The balloon stopped rising at a height of 500 feet.
- highness — the quality or state of being high; loftiness.
- length — the longest extent of anything as measured from end to end: the length of a river.
- linearity — the property, quality, or state of being linear.
- longitude — Geography. angular distance east or west on the earth's surface, measured by the angle contained between the meridian of a particular place and some prime meridian, as that of Greenwich, England, and expressed either in degrees or by some corresponding difference in time.
Antonyms for tallness
noun tallness
- width — extent from side to side; breadth; wideness.
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