noun
- Yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons.
- synonyms: yellowness
verb
- Turn yellow.
- usage: "The pages of the book began to yellow"
adjective
- Of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk.
- Easily frightened.
- synonyms: chicken, chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow-bellied
- Changed to a yellowish color by age.
- usage: "yellowed parchment"
- synonyms: yellowed
- Typical of tabloids.
- usage: "sensational journalistic reportage of the scandal"; "yellow press"
- synonyms: scandalmongering, sensationalistic
- Cowardly or treacherous.
- usage: "the little yellow stain of treason-M. W. Straight; "too yellow to stand and fight"
- Affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc.
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