adj
Meaning 1
Of a yellow hue.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- He had a yellow laptop in his bag.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: nonyellow, unyellow
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adj
Of a yellow hue.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: nonyellow, unyellow
adj
Lacking courage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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Synonyms: cowardly
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: journalism, media, publishing
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adj
Of a hue attributed to Far East Asians, especially the Chinese.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur
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adj
Far East Asian (relating to Asian people).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur
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adj
Of mixed Aboriginal and Caucasian ancestry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, dated, offensive
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adj
Synonym of high yellow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, dated
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Synonyms: high yellow
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adj
Related to the Liberal Democrats.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
Topics: government, politics
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adj
Related to the Free Democratic Party, a political party in Germany.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: government, politics
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Antonyms: none provided
intj
Used to indicate that the speaker needs a temporary break from current sexual activity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: procedure word
Topics: BDSM, lifestyle, sexuality
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name
A surname.
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noun
The color of sunflower petals and lemons; the color obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting blue from white light; the color evoked by light of wavelength around 580 nm; one of the three primary colors in subtractive color systems.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
The middle light in a set of three traffic lights, the lighting of which indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
One of the color balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, snooker, sports
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
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).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: games, pocket-billiards
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
A yellow card.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
Any of various pierid butterflies of the subfamily Coliadinae, especially the yellow colored species. Compare sulphur.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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verb
To become yellow or yellower.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
To make (something) yellow or yellower.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To promote (a captain) to flag rank without command of a squadron, ending his career; to make him a yellow admiral.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, transitive
Qualifier: Royal Navy
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
easily frightened
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: chicken, chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow-bellied
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: yellowish, xanthous
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: jaundiced, icteric
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
cowardly or treacherous-M.W.Straight
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
changed to a yellowish color by age
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: yellowed
Antonyms: none provided
noun
yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: yellowness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour
Narrower terms: canary yellow, canary, amber, gold, brownish yellow, gamboge, lemon, lemon yellow, maize, old gold, orange yellow, saffron, pale yellow, straw, wheat, greenish yellow
verb
turn yellow
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: discolor, discolour, colour, color
History
From Middle English yelwe, yelou, from Old English ġeolwe, oblique form of Old English ġeolu, from Proto-West Germanic *gelu, from Proto-Germanic *gelwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵhelh3wós, from *ǵhelh3- (“green, yellow”). Cognate with Scots yella (“yellow”), North Frisian gööl, güül (“yellow”), Saterland Frisian jeel (“yellow”), West Frisian giel (“yellow”), Cimbrian gel, ghéel (“yellow”), Dutch geel (“yellow”), Dutch Low Saxon gael, gel (“yellow”), German gelb, gehl (“yellow”), German Low German gel, geel, gęl, gäl (“yellow”), Luxembourgish giel (“yellow”), Vilamovian gaoł (“yellow”), Yiddish געל (gel), געלב (gelb, “yellow”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish gul (“yellow”), Faroese and Icelandic gulur (“yellow”). Compare also Welsh gell (“bay, tawny”), Latin helvus (“dull yellow”), Irish geal (“white, bright”), Lithuanian žalias (“green”), Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós, “light green”), Persian زرد (zard, “yellow”), Sanskrit हरि (hari, “greenish-yellow”), Russian жёлтый (žóltyj, “yellow”), Russian зелёный (zeljónyj, “green”). The verb is from Middle English yelwen, ȝalowen, ȝolewen, from Old English ġeolwian, from the adjective.
From the colors used on traffic lights; yellow being the one for warning vehicles to stop soon.
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