nnoun.attributeyellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemonsSynset:yellowness
Derivationally Related Form:yellow
Hypernyms:chromatic color chromatic colour spectral color spectral colour
Inherited Hypernyms:yellowchromatic colorcolorvisual propertypropertyattributeabstractionentity
Direct Hyponyms:amberbrownish yellowcanarycanary yellowgambogegoldgreenish yellowlemonlemon yellowmaizeold goldorange yellowpale yellowsaffronstrawwheat
Full Hyponyms:amberbrownish yellowcanary yellowgambogegreenish yellowocherold goldorange yellowpale yellow
vverb.changeturn yellowExamples:- The pages of the book began to yellow
Derivationally Related Form:yellow
Hypernyms:color colour discolor discolour
Inherited Hypernyms:yellowdiscolorchange
Sentence Frame:Something ---s
adj satadj.allof the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolkSynset:xanthous yellowish
Antonyms:achromatic
Derivationally Related Form:yellownessyellow
Inherited Hypernyms:yellow
Similar to:chromatic
adj satadj.alleasily frightenedDomain Usage:colloquialism
Synset:chicken chickenhearted lily-livered white-livered yellow-bellied
Antonyms:brave
Derivationally Related Form:chicken
Inherited Hypernyms:chicken
Similar to:cowardly fearful
adj satadj.allchanged to a yellowish color by ageSynset:yellowed
Antonyms:new
Inherited Hypernyms:yellow
Similar to:old
adj satadj.alltypical of tabloidsSynset:scandalmongering sensationalistic
Examples:- sensational journalistic reportage of the scandal
- yellow press
Antonyms:unsensational
Derivationally Related Form:sensationalismscandalmongering
Inherited Hypernyms:scandalmongering
Similar to:sensational
adj satadj.allcowardly or treacherousExamples:- the little yellow stain of treason"-M.W.Straight
- too yellow to stand and fight
Antonyms:honorable
Inherited Hypernyms:yellow
Similar to:dishonorable dishonourable
adj satadj.allaffected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etcSynset:icteric jaundiced
Antonyms:healthy
Derivationally Related Form:icterus
Inherited Hypernyms:jaundiced
Similar to:unhealthy