tallish
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- adjective
- /ˈtɔlɪʃ/
- Informal
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- The tallish girl easily reached the top shelf to grab the book her friend wanted.
- a tallish man
- a tallish woman
Examples
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Into Hassan's, I saw enter a tallish wraith of a man... ...face hooded by his headdress.
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All right, so another tallish plant is this Galaxy Glow Euphorbia.
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They were tallish and fair, thin and awkward.
Fiction book (1995) -
Just then the front door swooshed open, and in walked a tallish, skinny boy about fourteen.
Fiction book (1990) -
The dark hair and blue eyes came from his mother, a tallish woman who went about her housewifely work with a perpetual air of anxiety.
Fiction book (2001) -
Now he was beginning to recall brief glimpses of a tallish, fair, vaguely attractive girl who looked a lot like his aunt.
Fiction book (2001) -
She was tallish, slender, and wore soft dresses and gauzy scarves of vibrant colors.
Fiction book (1998) -
At seventeen, Marjorie was tallish (5' 7" or so), but she had never gone through anything like an awkward phase, and already it was clear she was going to be a knockout.
Fiction book (2001) -
Lois had to strain a little over this because Lucy was so blond, with translucent skin and large blue eyes like a doll's, and Lois was nothing out of the ordinary, just a tallish, thinnish, brownish person with freckles.
Fiction book (1990) -
He was tallish, with a slightly awkward gait that made him stand out in the crowd.
Synonyms
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Higher than most people or things of the same kind
Antonyms
How Tall
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word tallish is simply tall plus the ending -ish, which means 'somewhat' or 'a little like', and you see the same -ish in words like smallish and greenish. So tallish means 'somewhat tall', not very tall but a bit taller than usual.