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yellow, yellownessadjective
yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons
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yellownessAntonyms:
unsensational, new, honourable, brave, healthy, neutral, achromatic, honorable, courageous -
yellow, yellowish, xanthousadjective
of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk
Synonyms:
jaundiced, yellow-bellied, icteric, scandalmongering, white-livered, yellowed, xanthous, yellowish, chicken, lily-livered, yellow(a), chickenhearted, sensationalisticAntonyms:
new, healthy, courageous, honourable, honorable, neutral, achromatic, unsensational, brave -
chicken, chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow, yellow-belliedadjective
easily frightened
Synonyms:
jaundiced, yellow-bellied, icteric, scandalmongering, white-livered, yellowed, xanthous, yellowish, chicken, lily-livered, yellow(a), chickenhearted, sensationalisticAntonyms:
courageous, brave, unsensational, honorable, healthy, neutral, new, achromatic, honourable -
yellow, yellowedadjective
changed to a yellowish color by age
«yellowed parchment»
Synonyms:
jaundiced, yellow-bellied, icteric, scandalmongering, white-livered, yellowed, xanthous, yellowish, chicken, lily-livered, yellow(a), chickenhearted, sensationalisticAntonyms:
neutral, honorable, new, achromatic, healthy, courageous, unsensational, brave, honourable -
scandalmongering, sensationalistic, yellow(a)adjective
typical of tabloids
«sensational journalistic reportage of the scandal»; «yellow press»
Antonyms:
brave, neutral, healthy, new, honourable, achromatic, courageous, unsensational, honorable -
yellowadjective
cowardly or treacherous
«the little yellow stain of treason»-M.W.Straight; «too yellow to stand and fight»
Synonyms:
jaundiced, yellow-bellied, icteric, scandalmongering, white-livered, yellowed, xanthous, yellowish, chicken, lily-livered, yellow(a), chickenhearted, sensationalisticAntonyms:
honorable, brave, unsensational, neutral, honourable, achromatic, healthy, courageous, new -
jaundiced, icteric, yellowverb
affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc
Synonyms:
yellow(a), yellow-bellied, icteric, scandalmongering, white-livered, yellowed, xanthous, yellowish, chicken, lily-livered, jaundiced, chickenhearted, sensationalisticAntonyms:
neutral, new, achromatic, brave, unsensational, honorable, honourable, healthy, courageous -
yellowverb
turn yellow
«The pages of the book began to yellow»
Antonyms:
achromatic, unsensational, brave, honorable, courageous, honourable, new, healthy, neutral
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yellowadjective
Synonyms:
golden, sallow, tawny, ecru, amber, fallow, fulvous, croconic, jaundiced, fulvid, buff, luteous, saffron, ocherous, lurid
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List of paraphrases for «yellow»:
jaune, amarillo, yolk, wong, lutea, huang, amber, yellowish, flue-cured, gook, -green, hwang, scab, selective-yellow
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Giulio Ciccone:
I know that the terrain will suit Julian Alaphilippe well and that six seconds is nothing, riding in the yellow jersey through France is such a special feeling and I could really enjoy it because the first 200 kilometres were taken at a slow pace.
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Charlie Whiting:
The procedure now would be to simply red-flag any time that there’s a double-waved yellow flag, then there will be no discussion, it will be done routinely if there’s a double-waved yellow flag.
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The FIA:
It will normally be used when double waved yellow flags are needed on any section of track and competitors or officials may be in danger, but the circumstances are not such as to warrant use of the safety car itself.
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Helen Zia:
This is a common thread for the history of Asians in America whether it’s an economic crisis or somebody to blame for the World Trade Center being destroyed: It’s Asians, yellow and brown people that have historically been scapegoated and blamed for these things, it goes to a threat that is more than a couple of hundred years old — blaming a group that is seen as the forever-enemy alien.
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Noel Duan:
In imperial China, only the emperor was allowed to wear yellow, yellow was the most precious color, the most noble color.
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Rhymes with Yellow
- pasquariello
- mastrangelo
- tortoriello
- santaniello
- santangelo
- pietrangelo
- pasquarello
- manganiello
- fratangelo
- darcangelo
- cartusciello
- tortorello
- tamburello
- romaniello
- pirandello
- picariello
- muscarello
- monticello
- montebello
- minichiello
- manganello
- giovanniello
- colangelo
- carangelo
- tumminello
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- torsiello
- tomasello
- stangelo
- scarpello
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Pronounce yellow as ˈjɛloʊ.
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1. […]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!
— Jack Kerouac, On the Road
2. What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.
— Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
3. Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you’re different in a society, you’re funny.
— Will Eisner
What is another word for yellow?
955 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ jˈɛlə͡ʊ], [ jˈɛləʊ], [ j_ˈɛ_l_əʊ]
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adj.
• all (adjective)
- yellow.
• aureate (adjective)
- over blown,
- over-blown.
• blond (adjective)
- strawer,
- Asher,
- platinum,
- Flaxen.
• cowardly (adjective)
- sneaking,
- running scared,
- deceitful,
- treacherous,
- low,
- having the willies,
- cringing,
- cowardly,
- tricky,
- lacking courage,
- Cowhearted,
- no guts,
- yellow-bellied,
- tremulous,
- recreant,
- pigeonhearted,
- Chicken-hearted,
- mean.
• craven (adjective)
- more chicken,
- more wimpish,
- mean spirited,
- most chicken,
- wussier,
- wimpiest.
• fainthearted (adjective)
- co-wed,
- co wed,
- more unassertive,
- most cowed,
- un-assertive,
- more cowed,
- un assertive.
• fearful (adjective)
- terrified,
- aflutter,
- phobic,
- in a dither,
- rabbity,
- goose-bumpy.
• frightened (adjective)
- in cold sweat,
- scared stiff,
- in a cold sweat,
- in a panic,
- more butterflies,
- more terror stricken,
- in sweat,
- more terror-stricken,
- most butterflies,
- most terror-stricken,
- most affrighted,
- most terrorized,
- terror-stricken,
- more spooked,
- terror stricken,
- having kittens,
- Butterflies,
- up tight,
- more jellyfish,
- more unnerved,
- un nerved,
- most terror stricken,
- sissiest,
- pushing panic button,
- more affrighted,
- most spooked,
- most unnerved,
- terrorstricken,
- most terrorstricken,
- more terrorized,
- sissier,
- pushing the panic button,
- more terrorstricken,
- most jellyfish,
- up-tight.
• gutless (adjective)
- more coward,
- faint hearted,
- more faint-hearted,
- most coward,
- sub missive,
- more faint hearted,
- most faint hearted.
• irresolute (adjective)
- shifty,
- undecided,
- insipid,
- capricious,
- dillydallying,
- vacillating,
- unwilling,
- Shilly-shally,
- irresolute,
- double-minded,
- ambivalent,
- shy,
- fickle,
- unresolved,
- erratic,
- unsure,
- undependable,
- halfhearted,
- infirm,
- impulsive,
- Flitting,
- fly-by-night,
- watery,
- shrinking,
- indecisive,
- irresponsible,
- hesitant,
- changeable,
- volatile,
- uncertain,
- inconsistent,
- tentative.
• jaundiced (adjective)
- most grudging,
- un-fair,
- more warped,
- most preconceived,
- most unindifferent,
- pre conceived,
- un-fairer,
- onesided,
- one sided,
- un fairest,
- most warped,
- in tolerant,
- pre-conceived,
- more grudging,
- un-friendlier,
- un indifferent,
- un-friendliest,
- more disapproving,
- dis approving,
- pre possessed,
- un-fairest,
- in-tolerant,
- dis-approving,
- pre-possessed,
- more preconceived,
- more unindifferent,
- un friendlier,
- un friendliest,
- un-friendly,
- un-indifferent,
- most disapproving,
- un fairer,
- un fair.
• light-haired (adjective)
- blond.
• lily-livered (adjective)
- lily livered,
- lilylivered.
• lurid (adjective)
- low down,
- more low down,
- most horrifying,
- more horrifying,
- most lowdown,
- offcolor,
- off color,
- more low-down,
- dis gusting,
- more lowdown,
- dis-gusting.
• Other relevant words: (adjective)
- unindifferent,
- lowdown,
- fainthearted,
- meanspirited,
- lurid,
- unassertive,
- sneaky,
- forceless,
- wussy,
- aureate,
- amoebalike,
- wimpy,
- jaundiced,
- Poltroonish,
- unassured,
- Pithless,
- frightened,
- timid,
- wimpish,
- low-down,
- preconceived.
• recreant (adjective)
- dis-loyal,
- most defecting,
- most apostate,
- more defecting,
- falsehearted,
- un-truest,
- dis loyal,
- un-faithful,
- un-truer,
- un truer,
- un truest,
- un faithful.
• sneaky (adjective)
- dis-ingenuous,
- under hand,
- in direct,
- under-hand,
- in-direct,
- un scrupulous,
- un-scrupulous,
- Double dealing,
- doubledealing,
- dis ingenuous,
- un reliable,
- un-reliable,
- un-trustworthy.
• spineless (adjective)
- most pithless,
- in adequate,
- in effective,
- more amoebalike,
- most amoebalike,
- more forceless,
- weak willed,
- in-effective,
- most forceless,
- more invertebrate,
- in-effectual,
- weakwilled,
- in effectual,
- in-adequate.
• timid (adjective)
- most unassured,
- de mure,
- de-mure,
- more trembling,
- most milquetoast,
- most badgered,
- un assured,
- more daunted,
- most trembling,
- most browbeaten,
- more milquetoast,
- un-assured,
- more badgered,
- more browbeaten.
• yellow (adjective)
- dandelion,
- fallow,
- crocus,
- Xanthic,
- straw,
- honey-colored,
- mustard,
- sunny,
- buttery,
- ecru,
- Aurin,
- sallow,
- Cream-colored,
- sulfur,
- sunshine,
- jasmine,
- maize,
- sandy,
- primrose,
- honey,
- goldenrod,
- chartreuse,
- canary,
- golden,
- citron,
- champagne,
- gilded,
- creamy.
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- blue,
- beige,
- baby blue,
- bluish,
- alabaster,
- amethyst,
- avocado,
- black,
- azure.
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- fade,
- offensive,
- bleach,
- sensational,
- exciting,
- gray,
- lighten,
- lewd,
- unethical,
- brighten,
- unprincipled,
- bleed,
- change,
- deepen,
- blacken,
- mellow.
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- bloodless,
- brown,
- Complected,
- coloured,
- albino,
- bronzed,
- colored,
- Complexioned.
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- afraid/scared of your own shadow.
• chicken (noun)
- chicken.
• chickenhearted (noun)
- chickenhearted.
• chromatic (noun)
- chromatic.
• colors (noun)
- aqua,
- aquamarine,
- apricot,
- biscuit,
- bronze,
- blackness.
• coward (noun)
- faint-of-hearts,
- in-vertebrates,
- in vertebrate,
- fraidy cats,
- fraidycat,
- in vertebrates,
- faint of hearts,
- in-vertebrate,
- scaredy cats,
- white livers,
- chicken livers,
- lily livers,
- chicken hearts,
- fainthearts,
- fraidycats.
• dishonorable (noun)
- dishonorable.
• dishonourable (noun)
- dishonourable.
• irrational (noun)
- irrational.
• milksop (noun)
- weakling,
- wuss,
- cry-baby,
- lily liver,
- pansy,
- wimp,
- Pansies,
- momma’s boy.
• Other relevant words: (noun)
- vegetable,
- faint-of-heart,
- jellyfishes,
- Invertebrates,
- Primaries,
- skulkers,
- fraidy-cats,
- milksop,
- fraidy cat,
- fraidy-cat,
- primary pigment,
- faintheart,
- yellow belly,
- jellyfish,
- namby-pamby,
- primitive color,
- coward,
- white liver,
- chicken heart,
- recreants,
- scaredy cat,
- chicken liver,
- primary color.
• primary color (noun)
- primary-color,
- primitive colors,
- primary pigments.
• sunny color (noun)
- buff,
- gold,
- amber,
- lemon,
- tawny,
- saffron.
• vegetable (noun)
- herbaceous plant,
- herb,
- salad,
- Legumes,
- edibles,
- legume,
- herbs.
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- chinless,
- color,
- pine,
- ripe,
- pepper,
- sea,
- thistle,
- birch,
- willow,
- timorous.
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- effete,
- unmanly.
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•
- feeble.
• beige
- cream.
• Other relevant words:
- gutlessness,
- quality,
- feature,
- anxious,
- faint-hearted,
- trait,
- tint,
- mousiness,
- funk,
- faint-heartedness,
- afraid,
- paint,
- cowardice,
- spineless,
- characteristic,
- spinelessness,
- shade,
- cravenness,
- fearfulness,
- faintheartedness,
- yellowness,
- craven,
- weakness,
- lily-livered,
- fearful,
- gutless,
- dastardly,
- attribute,
- weak,
- pusillanimous,
- fear,
- pusillanimity.
• Other relevant words (noun):
- sensationalism,
- trismus,
- modest,
- arteriosclerosis,
- soothing syrup,
- truck,
- heartburn,
- deconsecration,
- auto,
- turn yellow,
- unheroic,
- invidious,
- gilt,
- Canker rash,
- luminal,
- methadone,
- alcohol,
- exanthema,
- dotage,
- ocher,
- panic-stricken,
- grippe,
- colors,
- Ocherous,
- Xanthin,
- shit,
- stars and stripes,
- gonorrhea,
- exanthem,
- electric car,
- union jack,
- Water qualm,
- contract,
- citrine,
- cowed,
- figurehead,
- fish eggs,
- Ochery,
- tranquiliser,
- feckless,
- painful,
- second childhood,
- alarm,
- compliant,
- longevity,
- impotent,
- pacifier,
- age,
- opiate,
- cadmium yellow,
- tame,
- sunburn,
- yellowed,
- calmative,
- mild,
- colour,
- Phenobarbital Sodium,
- hay fever,
- Caducity,
- canary-yellow,
- Cynanche,
- roadster,
- Milk-livered,
- egg,
- whooping cough,
- jeep,
- stain,
- polio,
- feeling,
- glowing,
- liquor,
- tar,
- gild,
- impressive,
- ochroid,
- scrofula,
- variola,
- dolly,
- struma,
- begild,
- rubeola,
- quinsy,
- potassium chromate,
- red,
- flax,
- ancient,
- Gonfalon,
- magnify,
- distrustful,
- alarum,
- sphacelate,
- hop,
- asphyxia,
- foghorn,
- alarm bell,
- apprehensive,
- superannuation,
- malarial fever,
- imposing,
- flag,
- dengue fever,
- pennant,
- racing car,
- fire bell,
- decay,
- Oriflamb,
- Anility,
- scared,
- crash,
- faint heart,
- rice,
- ineffectual,
- scandalmongering,
- blood poisoning,
- pebble,
- weakhearted,
- Methyl Yellow,
- bum,
- cloak-and-dagger,
- kidney stone,
- gamboge,
- cardialgia,
- grow,
- chloral hydrate,
- hue and cry,
- downer,
- disestablishment,
- gallstone,
- hypnotic,
- Secobarbital Sodium,
- sick,
- old,
- time of life,
- anger,
- Straw-colored,
- sissified,
- Funking,
- somnifacient,
- wheels,
- pyaemia,
- blue heaven,
- daunted,
- pertussis,
- flavouring,
- squeamish,
- depressor,
- Bloody flux,
- add,
- paregoric,
- rankle,
- Tartrazine,
- blue velvet,
- Yellowishness,
- phenobarbital,
- Disendowment,
- cholera,
- varicella,
- let go,
- heaves,
- meperidine,
- aureateness,
- standard,
- brash,
- spawn,
- orpiment,
- intimidated,
- signal of distress,
- molder,
- casus belli,
- abject fear,
- inept,
- ineffective,
- rust,
- climacteric,
- passion,
- tetanus,
- hernia,
- stormy petrel,
- babyish,
- lowlife,
- golden years,
- chorea,
- declining years,
- saffron-colored,
- Sweal,
- senility,
- Vexillum,
- flu,
- ripe age,
- peach,
- steamer,
- absorbing,
- pallid,
- gran turismo,
- Vitelline,
- ovule,
- white,
- Labarum,
- baseness,
- motorcycle,
- old age,
- distort,
- Banderole,
- unmanned,
- measles,
- walking ticket,
- banner,
- tow,
- riveting,
- pliant,
- orange yellow,
- golden pheasant,
- pyrosis,
- soporific,
- rot,
- necrosis,
- banneret,
- alerts,
- poltroon,
- pendant,
- sodium thiopental,
- Minibus,
- tan,
- station wagon,
- fervid,
- clunker,
- suppressed,
- Dastardy,
- lapse,
- sleeping pill,
- Ochreous,
- warning,
- junk,
- racer,
- Bloodstroke,
- unhealthy,
- oldness,
- tricolor,
- narcotic,
- lemon yellow,
- laudanum,
- scarlatina,
- tonsillitis,
- spring a leak,
- bubonic plague,
- wan,
- engild,
- and blue,
- amplify,
- orange,
- coupe,
- depressant,
- stinker,
- thrill,
- go bad,
- insignia,
- blanch,
- hysterical,
- jalopy,
- enanthem,
- brownish yellow,
- barbiturate,
- Bandrol,
- yellow ocher,
- turps,
- warbler,
- cold feet,
- green sickness,
- Burgee,
- sexy,
- acid yellow,
- soul-stirring,
- Purree,
- go off,
- automobile,
- shrivel,
- sedative,
- spiritless,
- jack,
- blonde,
- submissive,
- red flag,
- irritation,
- xanthous,
- roe,
- Biliary Calculus,
- wagon,
- albumen,
- endocarditis,
- seasoning,
- break,
- Amobarbital Sodium,
- go to seed,
- stock car,
- tranquilizer,
- bruise,
- pennon,
- warm,
- eggshell,
- corn,
- deposition,
- sleep-inducer,
- white feather,
- snapdragon,
- meek,
- checker cab,
- opium,
- monitor,
- bisque,
- scabies,
- Ochry,
- war cry,
- bounce,
- chrysophenin,
- perish,
- scag,
- dismissal,
- Oriflamme,
- Yellow-eyed,
- angina pectoris,
- pneumonia,
- war whoop,
- overwhelming,
- pink slip,
- analgesic,
- cardiac arrest,
- jealous,
- heart-stirring,
- swelling,
- white-livered,
- edgy,
- incompetent,
- subdued,
- trachoma,
- Icteric,
- barb,
- herpes,
- siren,
- taxicab,
- dismayed,
- funky,
- bus,
- king’s evil,
- envious,
- goofball,
- crack,
- golf cart,
- yellow jacket,
- under control,
- reinforce,
- yellow flag,
- jealousy,
- jaundice,
- Fallowness,
- discolour,
- traffic light,
- scarlet fever,
- chrome,
- piles,
- ague,
- agonizing,
- enanthema,
- cab,
- Hemorrhoids,
- wither,
- sleeping draught,
- ringworm,
- gray hairs,
- chrome yellow,
- Tonsilitis,
- Lutescent,
- black death,
- intensify,
- chlorosis,
- expand,
- varicosis,
- gold-colored,
- itch,
- wishy-washy,
- flivver,
- streamer,
- grip,
- tractable,
- phosphine,
- appendicitis,
- sedan,
- gathering clouds,
- panicky,
- erysipelas,
- Larum,
- phthisis,
- police whistle,
- crumble,
- Massicot,
- aggrandize,
- senescence,
- Glair,
- jonquil,
- Bannerol,
- sand,
- Dastardness,
- atherosclerosis,
- grand climacteric,
- decrepitude,
- start,
- van,
- limousine,
- butter,
- suspicious,
- sand-colored,
- aureolin,
- articulated vehicle,
- black stuff,
- set free,
- egg yolk,
- Grege,
- carditis,
- rupture,
- pneumonic plague,
- influenza,
- blue devil,
- totter,
- enlarge,
- nervous,
- advanced age,
- car,
- sissy,
- sports car,
- egg white,
- Psora,
- spine-chilling,
- colour type,
- sack,
- aurify,
- High-wrought,
- chicken-livered,
- melodramatic,
- thrilling,
- goiter,
- raise,
- break down,
- years,
- rachitis,
- coy,
- crumb,
- soft,
- mumps,
- blennorrhagia,
- vitellus,
- Yellows,
- chamois,
- minivan,
- Horn-mad,
- smack,
- conge,
- orangey,
- caviar,
- bunting,
- lockjaw,
- bashful,
- seasickness,
- Tetter,
- arsenic yellow,
- walking papers,
- under thumb,
- blue angel,
- codeine,
- horse,
- Blennorrhoea,
- purple heart,
- white stuff,
- eagle,
- rainbow,
- pick-up,
- jittery,
- tocsin,
- morphia,
- diffident,
- ivory,
- Breakbone Fever,
- yellow journalism,
- Yellowing,
- enhance,
- faint,
- shocker,
- yellow jack,
- augment,
- overpowering,
- old ivory,
- auric,
- road train,
- fog-signal,
- lotus,
- Deposal,
- microbus,
- telling,
- syntexis,
- soul-subduing,
- Demission,
- family car,
- retiring,
- poltroonery,
- improve,
- dethronement,
- barbiturate pill,
- mousy,
- die,
- tractor trailer,
- red light,
- sensationalistic,
- morphine,
- cardiomyopathy,
- Tracheocele,
- fogsignal,
- on edge,
- ensign,
- sleeper,
- heart attack,
- weak-kneed,
- yolk,
- heroin,
- shake,
- pale,
- knockout drops,
- Distracting,
- Bronchocele,
- Soother,
- hard stuff,
- old gold,
- yellowish,
- green-eyed,
- anodyne,
- Dartre,
- jumpy.
How to use «Yellow» in context?
Yellow is one of the colors in the spectrum created when light is scattered by small particles in the atmosphere. This color is associated with the sun and the morning and afternoon hours. In the CMYK color model, yellow is made up of the colors cyan, magenta, yellow, and black.
Paraphrases for Yellow:
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Reverse Entailment
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Adjective
yellowish, selective-yellow.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
cowardly, pornographic, tabloid, yolk, orange-coloured, flue-cured.
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Proper noun, singular
amarillo.
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Noun, singular or mass
yolk, LUTEA, gook.
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Adjective
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Exclusion
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Adjective
blue.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
orange.
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Noun, singular or mass
orange.
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Adjective
Hyponym for Yellow:
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n.
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attribute
Spectral Colour, spectral color, chromatic color, Chromatic Colour.
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attribute
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v.
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change
discolour, discolor, color, colour.
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change
Synonyms for (noun) yellow
Synonyms: yellow, yellowness
Definition: yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons
Synonyms for (verb) yellow
Synonyms: yellow
Definition: turn yellow
Usage: The pages of the book began to yellow
Synonyms for (adj) yellow
Synonyms: chicken, chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow, yellow-bellied
Definition: easily frightened
Similar words: fearful, cowardly
Definition: lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted
Usage: cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then- P.B.Shelley
Synonyms: xanthous, yellow, yellowish
Definition: of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk
Similar words: chromatic
Definition: being or having or characterized by hue
Synonyms: icteric, jaundiced, yellow
Definition: affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc
Similar words: unhealthy
Definition: not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind
Usage: unhealthy ulcers
Synonyms: yellow
Definition: cowardly or treacherous
Usage: the little yellow stain of treason-M.W.Straight; too yellow to stand and fight
Similar words: dishonorable, dishonourable
Definition: lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor
Usage: dishonorable in thought and deed
Synonyms: yellow, yellowed
Definition: changed to a yellowish color by age
Usage: yellowed parchment
Similar words: old
Definition: of long duration; not new
Usage: old tradition; old house; old wine; old country; old friendships; old money
Synonyms: sensationalistic, scandalmongering, yellow
Definition: typical of tabloids
Usage: sensational journalistic reportage of the scandal; yellow press
Similar words: sensational
Definition: causing intense interest, curiosity, or emotion