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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