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Defenition of the word yellow

    • Defenition of the word yellow

      • The second-longest river in China, after the Yangtze River with 5,464 kilometers (3,398 mi). Originating in the Bayankala Mountains in Qinghai Province in western China, it flows through nine provinces of China and empties into the Bohai Sea.
      • Having the colour of a yolk, a lemon or gold.
      • To become yellow.
      • To make yellow.
      • Lacking courage.
      • Color evoked by light that stimulates both the long and medium-wavelength cone cells of the retina about equally, but does not significantly stimulate the short-wavelength cone cells.
      • (informal) easily frightened
      • affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc
      • (archaic) showing or experiencing a state of disordered feeling or distorted judgment as through bitterness or melancholy; "all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye"-Alexander Pope
      • typical of tabloids; "sensational journalistic reportage of the scandal"; "yellow journalism"
      • cowardly or treacherous; "the little yellow stain of treason"-M.W.Straight; "too yellow to stand and fight"
      • turn yellow; "The pages of the book began to yellow"
      • changed to a yellowish color by age; "yellowed parchment"
      • similar to the color of an egg yolk
      • the quality or state of the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons
      • easily frightened
      • yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons
      • turn yellow
      • of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk
      • cowardly or treacherous
      • changed to a yellowish color by age
      • typical of tabloids

    Synonyms for the word yellow

      • blond
      • blonde
      • chicken
      • chickenhearted
      • fair
      • fair-haired
      • golden
      • golden-haired
      • jaundiced
      • lily-livered
      • or
      • scandalmongering
      • sensationalistic
      • white-livered
      • yellow-bellied
      • yellowed
      • yellowish
      • yellowness

    Similar words in the yellow

      • chromatic
      • colored
      • coward
      • cowardly
      • dishonorable
      • dishonourable
      • fearful
      • irrational
      • old
      • sensational
      • unhealthy
      • yellow
      • yellow's
      • yellowed
      • yellower
      • yellowest
      • yellowing
      • yellowish
      • yellowknife
      • yellowknife's
      • yellows
      • yellowstone
      • yellowstone's

    Hyponyms for the word yellow

      • amber
      • brownish yellow
      • canary
      • canary yellow
      • chrome yellow
      • gamboge
      • gold
      • greenish yellow
      • lemon
      • lemon yellow
      • maize
      • old gold
      • orange yellow
      • pale yellow
      • saffron
      • straw
      • wheat

    Hypernyms for the word yellow

      • chromatic color
      • chromatic colour
      • color
      • colour
      • discolor
      • discolour
      • spectral color
      • spectral colour

    Idioms for the word yellow

      • yellow press
      • yellow belt
      • yellow flag
      • yellow race

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