Yellow

Meaning of Yellow

adjective
  1. of the colour between green and orange in the spectrum, a primary subtractive colour complementary to blue; coloured like ripe lemons or egg yolks.
    curly yellow hair
  2. not brave; cowardly.
    he'd better get back there quick and prove he's not yellow
  3. (of a style of writing, especially in journalism) lurid and sensational.
    he based his judgement on headlines and yellow journalism
noun
  1. yellow colour or pigment.
    the craft detonated in a blaze of red and yellow
    a wide range of colours from rich vibrant reds, yellows, blues, and greens to more unexpected pastel shades
  2. a yellow ball or piece in a game or sport, especially the yellow ball in snooker.
    he missed an easy yellow in frame four
  3. used in names of moths or butterflies that are mainly yellow in colour.
  4. any of a number of plant diseases in which the leaves turn yellow, typically caused by viruses and transmitted by insects.
verb
  1. become yellow, especially with age.
    the cream paint was beginning to yellow

Old English geolu, geolo, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch geel and German gelb, also to gold.

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Hyphenation of Yellow

Yel-low

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • Yellow is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Yellow synonyms

Meaning yellowish:

yellowish, xanthous

Meaning chicken:

chicken, chickenhearted

Meaning yellowed:

yellowed

Meaning scandalmongering:

scandalmongering, sensationalistic

Meaning jaundiced:

jaundiced, icteric

Meaning yellowness:

yellowness

Meaning a pale yellow oval citrus fruit with thick skin and fragrant, acidic juice:

lemon

Meaning hard translucent fossilized resin originating from extinct coniferous trees of the Tertiary period, typically yellowish in colour. It has been used in jewellery since antiquity:

amber

Meaning made of or coloured like gold:

gold

Meaning coloured or shining like gold:

golden

Meaning (of hair) fair or pale yellow:

blonde

Meaning (of hair or complexion) light; blonde:

fair

Meaning made of flax:

flaxen

Meaning lacking courage:

cowardly

Meaning contemptibly lacking in courage; cowardly:

craven

Meaning lacking courage, vigour, or vivacity:

spiritless

Meaning weak and purposeless:

spineless

Meaning showing a lack of courage or confidence; easily frightened:

timid

Meaning showing or suffering from nervousness or a lack of confidence:

timorous

Meaning feeling or showing fear or anxiety:

fearful

Meaning shaking or quivering, typically as a result of anxiety, excitement, or frailty:

trembling

Meaning (especially of the earth) shake or tremble:

quaking

Meaning becoming smaller in size or amount:

shrinking

Meaning crouch down in fear:

cowering

Meaning showing a lack of courage or determination; timid:

pusillanimous

Meaning lacking the force of character to hold to one's own decisions, beliefs, or principles; irresolute:

weak

Meaning lacking strength of character:

feeble

Meaning easy to mould, cut, compress, or fold; not hard or firm to the touch:

soft

Meaning lacking courage or determination:

gutless

Meaning weak and cowardly or unadventurous:

wimpish

Meaning weak and cowardly or feeble:

wimpy

Meaning feeble and cowardly:

sissy

Meaning effeminate, weak, or cowardly:

sissified

Meaning covered or saturated with water or another liquid:

wet

Meaning an utter coward:

poltroon

Meaning cowardly:

recreant

Meaning worthless or contemptible (used as a general term of abuse):

chickenshit

Yellow antonyms

Meaning ready to face and endure danger or pain; showing courage:

brave

Meaning not deterred by danger or pain; brave:

courageous

Words that rhyme with Yellow

Allhallow, allow, ballow, behallow, betallow, callow, disallow, dishallow, encallow, enhallow, enwallow, fallow, gallow, hallow, mackallow, mallow, marshmallow, preallow, preswallow, reallow, refallow, rehallow, reswallow, rewallow, sallow, shallow, swallow, tallow, twifallow, unallow, uncallow, unhallow, unsallow, upswallow, wallow, waxmallow, yallow, Bellow, Fellow, Longfellow, Oddfellow, Rockafellow, bedfellow, bellow, benchfellow, blackfellow, boonfellow, chamberfellow, clanfellow, classfellow

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