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say it: tawl
tall is an adjective and noun meaning "great in vertical dimension; high in stature". It carries 5 recorded senses.
lofty in style
“he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying”
too improbable to admit of belief
“a tall story”
a garment size for a tall person
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tall come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.