yellow

Meaning of yellow

noun
  1. The colour of gold, butter, or a lemon; the colour obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting blue from white light.
  2. The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, the illumination of which indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so.
  3. One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.
  4. (pocket billiards) One of two groups of object balls, or a ball from that group, as used in the principally British version of pool that makes use of unnumbered balls (the (yellow(s) and red(s)); contrast stripes and solids in the originally American version with numbered balls).
  5. A yellow card.
  6. Any of various pierid butterflies of the subfamily Coliadinae, especially the yellow coloured species. Compare sulphur.
verb
  1. To become yellow or more yellow.
  2. To make (something) yellow or more yellow.
adjective
  1. Having yellow as its colour.
  2. Lacking courage.
  3. Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.
  4. Far East Asian (relating to Asian people).
  5. Of mixed Aboriginal and Caucasian ancestry.
  6. High yellow.
  7. Related to the Liberal Democrats.
    2012 March 2, Andrew Grice, "Yellow rebels take on Clegg over NHS 'betrayal'", The Independent
  8. Related to the Free Democratic Party of Germany.
    the black-yellow coalition

Information about yellow

  • The plural form of yellow is: yellows.
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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 :

amber, cowardly

yellow antonyms

Meaning :

green, red

Translation of yellow

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, Yellow, bedfellow, bellow, benchfellow, blackfellow, boonfellow, chamberfellow, clanfellow

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