Synonyms for yellow
ˈyɛl oʊyel·low

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1. yellownoun

   To cause to become yellow or more yellow.

   Synonyms:
   cowardly, amber

   Antonyms:
   red, green

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1. yellow, yellownessadjective

   yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons

   Synonyms:
   yellowness

   Antonyms:
   unsensational, new, honourable, brave, healthy, neutral, achromatic, honorable, courageous

2. yellow, yellowish, xanthousadjective

   of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk

   Synonyms:
   jaundiced, yellow-bellied, icteric, scandalmongering, white-livered, yellowed, xanthous, yellowish, chicken, lily-livered, yellow(a), chickenhearted, sensationalistic

   Antonyms:
   new, healthy, courageous, honourable, honorable, neutral, achromatic, unsensational, brave

3. chicken, chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow, yellow-belliedadjective

   easily frightened

   Synonyms:
   jaundiced, yellow-bellied, icteric, scandalmongering, white-livered, yellowed, xanthous, yellowish, chicken, lily-livered, yellow(a), chickenhearted, sensationalistic

   Antonyms:
   courageous, brave, unsensational, honorable, healthy, neutral, new, achromatic, honourable

4. yellow, yellowedadjective

   changed to a yellowish color by age

   "yellowed parchment"

   Synonyms:
   jaundiced, yellow-bellied, icteric, scandalmongering, white-livered, yellowed, xanthous, yellowish, chicken, lily-livered, yellow(a), chickenhearted, sensationalistic

   Antonyms:
   neutral, honorable, new, achromatic, healthy, courageous, unsensational, brave, honourable

5. scandalmongering, sensationalistic, yellow(a)adjective

   typical of tabloids

   "sensational journalistic reportage of the scandal"; "yellow press"

   Antonyms:
   brave, neutral, healthy, new, honourable, achromatic, courageous, unsensational, honorable

6. yellowadjective

   cowardly or treacherous

   "the little yellow stain of treason"-M.W.Straight; "too yellow to stand and fight"

   Synonyms:
   jaundiced, yellow-bellied, icteric, scandalmongering, white-livered, yellowed, xanthous, yellowish, chicken, lily-livered, yellow(a), chickenhearted, sensationalistic

   Antonyms:
   honorable, brave, unsensational, neutral, honourable, achromatic, healthy, courageous, new

7. jaundiced, icteric, yellowverb

   affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc

   Synonyms:
   yellow(a), yellow-bellied, icteric, scandalmongering, white-livered, yellowed, xanthous, yellowish, chicken, lily-livered, jaundiced, chickenhearted, sensationalistic

   Antonyms:
   neutral, new, achromatic, brave, unsensational, honorable, honourable, healthy, courageous

8. yellowverb

   turn yellow

   "The pages of the book began to yellow"

   Antonyms:
   achromatic, unsensational, brave, honorable, courageous, honourable, new, healthy, neutral

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1. • Discolor

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1. yellowadjective

   Synonyms:
   golden, FULVOUS, FULVID, gold-colored

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1. yellowadjective

   Synonyms:
   golden, sallow, tawny, ecru, amber, fallow, fulvous, croconic, jaundiced, fulvid, buff, luteous, saffron, ocherous, lurid

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1. List of paraphrases for "yellow":

   jaune, amarillo, yolk, wong, lutea, huang, amber, yellowish, flue-cured, gook, -green, hwang, scab, selective-yellow

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1. Cristian Roldan:

   We had talked about him fouling me a little bit and talked about me specifically asking the ref to give him a yellow card, it’s all in good fun, but we’re both competitors, so once we get on the field, we’re no longer brothers, we’re rivals.

2. Michael Brecht:

   For weeks, we would bring the nicest banana we could find in Berlin to the zoo, and she would always just straight eat it, there was some head scratching done. and we gradually figured out that it’s only brownish bananas that she peels. She never peels a beautiful yellow one.

3. Mike Steenhoek:

   It won't be like in a car race, going from a yellow flag to a green flag. It's going to take a while to get back up to the throughput that river is normally able to provide, the worry is that this could be a very brief relaxation of restrictions, just a temporary reprieve.

4. Kevin Collier:

   Next thing you know, they’re going to say you can’t wear blue on Monday, you know, or you can’t wear yellow on Thursday, where’s it going to end?

5. Elizabeth Krasinski:

   If I could describe my sister with a color, she was a yellow, she was so full of sunshine.