yellow
yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons (Freq. 8) • Syn: yellowness • Derivationally related forms: yellow (for: yellowness) • Hypernyms: chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour • Hyponyms: canary yellow, canary, amber, gold, brownish yellow, gamboge, lemon, lemon yellow, maize, old gold, orange yellow, saffron, pale yellow, straw, wheat, greenish yellow
turn yellow (Freq. 2) - The pages of the book began to yellow • Hypernyms: discolor, discolour, colour, color • Verb Frames: - Something ----s
1. of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk (Freq. 26) • Syn: yellowish, xanthous • Similar to: chromatic • Derivationally related forms: yellowness 2. easily frightened (Freq. 2) • Syn: chicken, chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow-bellied • Similar to: cowardly, fearful • Derivationally related forms: chicken (for: chicken) • Usage Domain: colloquialism 3. changed to a yellowish color by age (Freq. 1) - yellowed parchment • Syn: yellowed • Similar to: old 4. typical of tabloids - sensational journalistic reportage of the scandal - yellow press • Syn: scandalmongering, sensationalistic • Similar to: sensational • Derivationally related forms: sensationalism (for: sensationalistic), scandalmongering (for: scandalmongering) 5. affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc • Syn: jaundiced, icteric • Similar to: unhealthy • Derivationally related forms: icterus (for: icteric) 6. cowardly or treacherous - "the little yellow stain of treason"-M.W.Straight - too yellow to stand and fight • Similar to: dishonorable, dishonourable
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