Yellow

Adjective

 * 1) Having yellow as its colour.
 * 2) * 1911, J. Milton Hayes, "The green eye of the little yellow god,"
 * There's a one-eyed yellow idol / To the north of Kathmandu; / There's a little marble cross below the town; / And a brokenhearted woman / Tends the grave of 'Mad' Carew, / While the yellow god for ever gazes down.
 * 1)  Lacking courage.
 * 2)  Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.
 * 3) * 2004, Doreen Carvajal, "Photo edict muffles gossipy press," International Herald Tribune, 4 Oct. (retrieved 29 July 2008),
 * The denizens of the gossipy world of the pink press, purple prose and yellow tabloids are shivering over disputed photographs of Princess Caroline of Monaco.
 * 1)  Chinese relating to Chinese people.

Synonyms

 * cowardly

Derived terms

 * double yellow lines
 * yellow anemone
 * yellowbelly
 * yellow-bellied
 * yellow-bellied sapsucker
 * yellow bile
 * yellow-billed loon
 * yellowbird
 * yellow birch
 * yellow-breasted chat
 * yellow brick road
 * yellow cake
 * yellow card
 * yellow-card


 * yellow dog
 * yellow dog contract
 * yellow dwarf
 * yellow-eyed penguin
 * yellowface
 * yellow fever
 * yellow-green alga
 * yellow-haired
 * yellowhammer
 * yellow horde
 * yellow jack
 * yellow jersey
 * yellow jessamine


 * yellow journalism
 * yellow-legged tinamou
 * yellow light
 * yellow menace
 * yellow-necked mouse
 * yellow oriole
 * yellow pages
 * yellow perch
 * yellow peril
 * yellow phosphorus
 * yellow pine
 * yellow pocket
 * yellow poplar
 * yellow press


 * yellow rattle
 * Yellow River
 * Yellow Sea
 * yellow-shafted flicker
 * yellow sheet
 * yellow spot
 * yellowtail
 * yellow terror
 * yellow-throated
 * yellow-throated warbler
 * yellow warbler
 * yellow wood anemone
 * yellow woodland anemone

Noun

 * 1)  The colour of gold or butter; the colour obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting blue from white light.
 * 2)  One of the colour balls used in snooker with a value of 2 points.
 * 3)  yellow card

Hyponyms

 * bronze yellow, cadmium yellow, fast yellow AB, quinoline yellow, school bus yellow, sulfur yellow, sulphur yellow, taxi yellow, yellow-green, yellow 2G

Derived terms

 * see yellow

Verb

 * 1) To become yellow or more yellow.
 * 2) To cause to become yellow or more yellow.

Adjectives for Yellow
dazzling; brass; gay; soft; durable; rich; canary; cheerful; bright; eye-taking.

Thesaurus
Amytal, Amytal pill, Barnumesque, Cassel yellow, Claude tint, Demerol, Dolophine, H, Luminal, Luminal pill, M, Mickey Finn, Nembutal, Nembutal pill, Paris yellow, Seconal, Seconal pill, Tuinal, Tuinal pill, acid yellow, afraid, albumen, alcohol, amber, amobarbital sodium, analgesic, anodyne, arsenic yellow, aureate, aureateness, aureolin, auric, aurify, barb, barbiturate, barbiturate pill, begild, beige, black stuff, blue, blue angel, blue devil, blue heaven, blue velvet, buff, buff-yellow, butter, cadmium yellow, calmative, canary, canary-yellow, caviar, chamois, champagne, chartreuse yellow, chicken, chickenhearted, chloral hydrate, chrome, chrome lemon, chrome yellow, chrysophenin, citron, citron-yellow, cloak-and-dagger, codeine, codeine cough syrup, coward, cowardly, cowed, crash, craven, cream, creamy, crocus, dandelion, daunted, depressant, depressor, dismayed, distrustful, dolly, downer, ecru, egg, egg white, eggshell, engild, envious, fainthearted, fallow, fallowness, fearful, fish eggs, flax, flaxen, funking, funky, gamboge, gild, gilded, gilt, glair, gold, gold-colored, golden, golden pheasant, goofball, green, green with jealousy, green-eyed, grege, gutless, hard stuff, henhearted, heroin, honey, honey yellow, hop, horn-mad, horse, hypnotic, intimidated, invidious, jaundice, jaundice-eyed, jaundiced, jealous, jonquil, junk, knockout drops, laudanum, lemon, lemon chrome, lemon-yellow, lily-livered, liquor, lotus, lurid, luteolous, lutescent, madder yellow, maize, massicot, melodramatic, meperidine, metanil yellow, methadone, methyl yellow, milk-livered, milksoppish, milksoppy, morphia, morphine, mousy, naphthol yellow, narcotic, ocherish, ocherous, ochery, ochreous, ochroid, ochrous, ochry, oil yellow, old gold, old ivory, olivesheen, opiate, opium, or, orpiment, overtimid, overtimorous, ovule, pacifier, pain killer, panic-prone, panicky, paregoric, peach, pebble, pen yan, phenobarbital, phenobarbital sodium, phosphine, pigeonhearted, primrose, primrose-colored, primrose-yellow, primuline yellow, purple heart, purree, pusillanimous, pyrethrum yellow, quietener, quince yellow, rabbity, rainbow, red, roe, saffron, saffron-colored, saffron-yellow, sallow, sand, sand-colored, sandy, scag, secobarbital sodium, sedative, sensational, shit, shocker, sissified, sissy, sleep-inducer, sleeper, sleeping draught, sleeping pill, smack, snapdragon, sodium thiopental, soft, somnifacient, soother, soothing syrup, soporific, spawn, spine-chilling, spunkless, stil-de-grain yellow, straw, straw-colored, sulfur, sunflower yellow, suspicious, tar, tartrazine, timid, timorous, tranquilizer, turn yellow, turps, unmanly, unmanned, vitellus, weak, weak-kneed, weakhearted, white, white stuff, white-livered, xanthene, xanthic, xanthin, xanthous, yellow jacket, yellow madder, yellow ocher, yellow-eyed, yellowish, yellowishness, yellowness, yolk

Alternative forms

 * yeallow
 * yeller

Etymology
yelwe, yelou:, from geolu:, geolwe:, from  (compare  giel:,  geel:,  gelb:,  gul:), from  *ĝʰel- 'to shine' (compare Irish geal: 'white, bright',  helvus: 'dull yellow',  chlóos 'green', chlōrós 'greenish',  žlŭtŭ 'yellow',  žeĩvas, žaĩvas: 'greenish', Avestan zari 'yellow',  háris 'yellowish').

Adjective

 * Afrikaans:
 * Akkadian:
 * Albanian:
 * American Sign Language:
 * Amharic:
 * Arabic:, صفراء,
 * Armenian:
 * Breton:
 * Catalan:
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Northern Mandarin Harbin: 黄 (xuaŋ24)
 * Southwest Mandarin Liuzhou: 黄 (huaŋ31)
 * Southwest Mandarin Chengdu: 黄 (xuaŋ21)
 * West Mandarin Ürümqi: 黄 (xuɑŋ51)
 * West Mandarin Xi'an: 黄 (xuɑŋ24)
 * Central Mandarin Wuhan: 黄 (xuaŋ213)
 * Jianghuai Mandarin Xuzhou: 黄 (xuaŋ55)
 * Jianghuai Mandarin Yangzhou: 黄 (xuaŋ35)
 * Jin Taiyuan: 黄 (xuɒ̃11)
 * Northern Wu Suzhou: 黄 (ɦuɑ̃13)
 * Northern Wu Shanghai: 黄 (βɑ̃13)
 * Northern Wu Hangzhou: 黄 (ɦuɑŋ213)
 * Southern Wu Wenzhou: 黄 (ɦuɔ31)
 * Hui Jixi: 黄 (õ44)
 * Gan Nanchang: 黄 (wɔŋ35)
 * Xiang Changsha: 黄 (uan13), (fan13)
 * Northern Min Jian'ou: 黄色 (uaŋ33 sɛ24)
 * Eastern Min Fuzhou: 黄 (huoŋ53)
 * Southern Min Xiamen: 黄 (ŋ35)
 * Southern Min Chaozhou: 黄 (ŋ55)
 * Southern Min Haikou: 黄 (ui21)
 * Hakka Meixian: 黄 (voŋ11)
 * Yue Guangzhou: 黄 (uɔŋ21)
 * Pinghua Nanning: 黄 (hoŋ21)
 * Tuhua Dong'an: 黄 (uaŋ13)
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: gulur
 * Fijian: dromodromoa
 * Filipino:
 * Finnish:
 * French: jaune
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek: (kítrinos)
 * Ancient Greek:
 * Guaraní: sa'yju
 * Hawaiian:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hiligaynon: ,
 * Hopi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: kuning
 * Acehnese:
 * Buginese:
 * Javanese: kuniŋ, jene, kuning
 * Madurese:
 * Makasar:
 * Minangkabau:
 * Nias: ,
 * Sasak:
 * Sundanese: koneng


 * Interlingua: jalne
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer: lɨəŋ
 * Korean: 노란 (noran)
 * Kuna: koroguad
 * Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz: сары
 * Lao:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: dzeltens,
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish: giel
 * Maori: koowhai
 * Maricopa:
 * Nahuatl: cōztic
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Nottoway-Meherrin:
 * Novial: gelbi
 * O'odham:
 * Ossetian:
 * Digor:
 * Iron:
 * Papiamentu: hel
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: mellen,  melen,  mellan,  gelg
 * Russian:
 * Samoan: sāmasama, lega
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: жут
 * Roman: žut
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: -a kimanjano
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tahitian:
 * Tatar:
 * Tupinambá: îub
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: sary
 * Tuvaluan: ,
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uyghur: seriq
 * Uzbek: sariq
 * Vietnamese: vàng
 * Volapük: yelovik, yelibik
 * Welsh: ,


 * Afrikaans: laf
 * Arabic: (jabá:n)
 * Catalan: covard
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, lâche
 * German:
 * Hebrew: פחדן (pahdan), פחדנית  (pahdanit)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Interlingua: coarde
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 臆病な (okubyō-na)
 * Korean: 겁많은
 * Luxembourgish: feig
 * Papiamentu: cobarde (stinki)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: covarde
 * Romanian: laş
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: korkak

Noun

 * Afrikaans: geel
 * American Sign Language:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri:
 * Basque: hori
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: melen
 * Bulgarian: жълт (žǎlt), жълта (žǎlta) , жълто (žǎlto) , жълти (žǎlti)
 * Catalan: groc, groga
 * Cherokee: ᏓᎶᏁᎦ (dalonega)
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 黄 (huáng)
 * Northern Mandarin Harbin: 黄 (xuaŋ24)
 * Southwest Mandarin Liuzhou: 黄 (huaŋ31)
 * Southwest Mandarin Chengdu: 黄 (xuaŋ21)
 * West Mandarin Ürümqi: 黄 (xuɑŋ51)
 * West Mandarin Xi'an: 黄 (xuɑŋ24)
 * Central Mandarin Wuhan: 黄 (xuaŋ213)
 * Jianghuai Mandarin Xuzhou: 黄 (xuaŋ55)
 * Jianghuai Mandarin Yangzhou: 黄 (xuaŋ35)
 * Jin Taiyuan: 黄 (xuɒ̃11)
 * Northern Wu Suzhou: 黄 (ɦuɑ̃13)
 * Northern Wu Shanghai: 黄 (βɑ̃13)
 * Northern Wu Hangzhou: 黄 (ɦuɑŋ213)
 * Southern Wu Wenzhou: 黄 (ɦuɔ31)
 * Hui Jixi: 黄 (õ44)
 * Gan Nanchang: 黄 (wɔŋ35)
 * Xiang Changsha: 黄 (uan13), (fan13)
 * Northern Min Jian'ou: 黄色 (uaŋ33 sɛ24)
 * Eastern Min Fuzhou: 黄 (huoŋ53)
 * Southern Min Xiamen: 黄 (ŋ35)
 * Southern Min Chaozhou: 黄 (ŋ55)
 * Southern Min Haikou: 黄 (ui21)
 * Hakka Meixian: 黄 (voŋ11)
 * Yue Guangzhou: 黄 (uɔŋ21)
 * Pinghua Nanning: 黄 (hoŋ21)
 * Tuhua Dong'an: 黄 (uaŋ13)
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:


 * Finnish: keltainen, kelta
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: κίτρινο (kítrino), ώχρα (ókhra)
 * Hebrew: צהוב (tsahóv) צהובה (tshubá)
 * Hindi: पीला (peelā)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: flava
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: jalne
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 黄色 (きいろ, kiiro)
 * Javanese: jene
 * Korean: 황색 (hwangsaek), 노랑 (norang)
 * Kurdish: zer,
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: dzeltens
 * Lithuanian:
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: മഞ്ഞ (manja)
 * Maltese:
 * Nahuatl: coztic
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English:
 * Papiamentu: hel
 * Persian: (zard)
 * Polish:, żółty
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: galben, galbenă
 * Romansch: mellen
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit: हरिद्राभः
 * Sardinian: grogu
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: жута
 * Roman: žuta
 * Slovak: žltý, žltá , žlté
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Sundanese: konéng
 * Swahili: manjano
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: పసుపు (pasupu)
 * Turkish:
 * Uyghur: سېرىق
 * Vietnamese: hòang
 * Volapük: yelov, yelib
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: giel

Verb

 * Arabic:
 * Dutch: vergelen
 * Hebrew: הצהיב
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian: ingiallirsi
 * Polish: żółknąć


 * Portuguese: amarelar
 * Russian: желтеть, пожелтеть
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: жутети,  жутјети
 * Roman: žuteti,  žutjeti
 * Turkish:


 * Arabic:
 * Dutch: vergelen
 * Italian:
 * Polish: żółcić
 * Portuguese: amarelar


 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: жутити
 * Roman: žutiti
 * Turkish: sarartmak