yellow
adjective
[ ˈjɛləʊ ]
• 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"
Similar:
yellowish,
yellowy,
lemon,
lemony,
amber,
gold,
golden,
blonde,
light brown,
fair,
flaxen,
• not brave; cowardly.
• "he'd better get back there quick and prove he's not yellow"
Similar:
cowardly,
lily-livered,
faint-hearted,
chicken-hearted,
pigeon-hearted,
craven,
spiritless,
spineless,
timid,
timorous,
fearful,
trembling,
quaking,
shrinking,
cowering,
afraid of one's own shadow,
pusillanimous,
weak,
feeble,
soft,
chicken,
weak-kneed,
gutless,
yellow-bellied,
wimpish,
wimpy,
sissy,
sissified,
wet,
candy-assed,
poltroon,
recreant,
poor-spirited,
chickenshit,
• (of a style of writing, especially in journalism) lurid and sensational.
• "he based his judgement on headlines and yellow journalism"
yellow
noun
• yellow colour or pigment.
• "the craft detonated in a blaze of red and yellow"
• a yellow ball or piece in a game or sport, especially the yellow ball in snooker.
• "he missed an easy yellow in frame four"
• used in names of moths or butterflies that are mainly yellow in colour.
• any of a number of plant diseases in which the leaves turn yellow, typically caused by viruses and transmitted by insects.
yellow
verb
• become yellow, especially with age.
• "the cream paint was beginning to yellow"
Origin:
Old English geolu, geolo, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch geel and German gelb, also to gold.
