yellow

Meaning

Adj

1. Of a yellow hue.
2. (informal) Lacking courage.
3. Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.
4. Of a hue attributed to Far East Asians, especially the Chinese.
5. Far East Asian (relating to Asian people).
6. Of mixed Aboriginal and Caucasian ancestry.
7. Synonym of high yellow
8. Related to the Liberal Democrats.
9. Related to the Free Democratic Party; a political party in Germany.

Noun

1. The colour of sunflower petals and lemons; the colour obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting blue from white light.
2. The mid 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.
3. One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.
4. 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).
5. A yellow card.
6. Any of various pierid butterflies of the subfamily Coliadinae, especially the yellow coloured species. Compare sulphur.

Verb

1. To become yellow or more yellow.
2. To make (something) yellow or more yellow.

Concepts

yellow

green

light brown

golden

amber

chicken

xanthous

orange

yolk

craven

fearful

yellowish

yellowed

waxen

pale

faint-hearted

timid

chickenhearted

white-livered

icteric

jaundiced

yellowness

color yellow

cream

cowardly

spineless

bright

lily-livered

yellow-bellied

scandalmongering

sensationalistic

blue

brown

coward

pusillanimous

red

be yellow

cream-colored

light green

xanthic

vitellus

gold-coloured

saffron

honeycomb

yellow ochre

brilliant in hue

colored

saffron-colored

or

grey

bashful

boggler

chicken hearted

dastardly

lily livered

mealymouthed

sheepish

shy

skittish

skulker

timorous

white livered

weak kneed

vitelline

lead oxide

litharge

tan

turn

turn color

fawn colour

dark

bird of paradise

fox

yellow light

dastard

fainthearted

funky

gutless

egg yolk

cream-coloured

ochre

Huang He

luteous

saffrony

pine

become yellow

gold

greenish yellow

dark yellow

paint

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈjɛl.əʊ/

Etymology

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 *ǵʰelh₃wos, from *ǵʰelh₃- (“gleam, yellow”).
Compare Welsh gwelw (“pale”), Latin helvus (“dull yellow”), Irish geal (“white, bright”), Italian giallo (“yellow”) 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”). Cognate with German gelb (“yellow”), Dutch geel (“yellow”).
The verb is from Old English ġeolwian, from the adjective.

Sentences

Do not cross the yellow line .

Specter flees , and Hikaru manages to downsize and capture Yellow .