yellow
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: BDSM
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government
hobbies
journalism
lifestyle
media
pocket-billiards
politics
publishing
sexuality
snooker
sports
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 *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.
Inflected forms:
form: yellows
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: yeallow
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: yeller
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: yaller
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: yellower
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: yellowest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: yeallow
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: yeller
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: yaller
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: yellows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: yellowing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: yellowed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: yellowed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: yeallow
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: yeller
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: yaller
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: yeallow
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: yeller
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: yaller
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It is the strangest yellow, that wall-paper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw—not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old foul, bad yellow things.
Red No. 3, red No. 40, blue No. 2 and green No. 3 all have been linked with cancer or tumors in animals. Other sources say red No. 40 and yellow No. 5 and No. 6 contain or may be contaminated with known carcinogens.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
gloss: One of the color balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A yellow card.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Andrew Surman fired in what proved to be a 37th-minute winner before Forest's Paul Konchesky saw red late on. That second yellow for the loan signing came in stoppage time and did not affect the outcome of a game which Norwich dominated.
gloss: Any of various pierid butterflies of the subfamily Coliadinae, especially the yellow colored species. Compare sulphur.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Several other beautiful butterflies rewarded my search in this place [...] The most abundant butterflies were the whites and yellows (Pieridae), several of which I had already found at Lombock and at Coupang, while others were new to me.
gloss: Of a yellow hue.
pos: adj
examples: He had a yellow laptop in his bag.
A sweaty reaper from his tillage brought / First fruits, the green ear and the yellow sheaf.
Red o'er the forest glows the setting sun, / The line of yellow light dies fast away / That crown'd the eastern copse, and chill and dun / Falls on the moor the brief November day.
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.
gloss: Lacking courage.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: What you should be is not yellow at all. If you're supposed to sock somebody in the jaw, and you sort of feel like doing it, you should do it.
You yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you!
gloss: Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: Of a hue attributed to Far East Asians, especially the Chinese.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
ethnic
offensive
slur
examples: They were all tall and all handsome, though they varied in their degree of darkness of skin, some being as dark as Mahomed, and some as yellow as a Chinese.
gloss: Far East Asian (relating to Asian people).
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
ethnic
offensive
slur
examples: Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril incarnate in one man.
The two youths, the brown and the yellow, faced each other at the cross-roads, under a dim street-lamp.
gloss: Of mixed Aboriginal and Caucasian ancestry.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
dated
offensive
examples: "Eh, Oscar—you hear about your yeller nephew?".
A big full-blood gin cottoned onto me. “Give us a drink, yeller feller.”
gloss: Synonym of high yellow.
pos: adj
tags: US
dated
examples: Charley threw her over for a yellow gal named Nancy: he never forgave Vashti for the vanishing from his life of a menace that had come to mean more to him than Vashti herself.
gloss: Related to the Liberal Democrats.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: yellow constituencies
gloss: Related to the Free Democratic Party, a political party in Germany.
pos: adj
examples: the black–yellow coalition
gloss: To become yellow or yellower.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Then suddenly, with the least warning, the sky yellows and the Chergui blows in from the Sahara, stinging the eyes and choking with its sandy, sticky breath.
Interviews, clippings, yellowing stories from foreign newspapers, notebooks with old scribblings. Salisbury called it the debris of a reporter always too much on the run to sort out the paper, but there it was, an investigator's dream, […]
gloss: To make (something) yellow or yellower.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To promote (a captain) to flag rank without command of a squadron, ending his career; to make him a yellow admiral.
pos: verb
tags: historical
transitive
examples: Then they might yellow him if they wanted to; he would be satisfied with Admiral’s rank.
gloss: Used to indicate that the speaker needs a temporary break from current sexual activity.
pos: intj
Synonyms: xantho-
blond
cream
dandelion
gold
khaki
lemon
yellow
Related words: cowardly
decoloured
discolored
icterus
jaundice
red
orange
green
blue
violet
white
Derived words: beyellowed
absinthe yellow
aniline yellow
antimony yellow
Apennine yellow-bellied toad
arylide yellow
Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross
aurora yellow
Berger's clouded yellow
black-and-yellow grosbeak
blue-and-yellow macaw
butter yellow
chrome yellow
clouded yellow
code yellow
common yellow oxalis
common yellow woodsorrel
dandelion yellow
Doctor Yellow
double yellow line
double yellow lines
eastern yellow robin
eastern yellow wagtail
federal yellow
full-course yellow
golden-yellow
grass-yellow
greater yellow-headed vulture
green-yellow
halberdleaf yellow violet
highway yellow
high yellow
if it's yellow let it mellow
Indian yellow
infrayellow
iodine yellow
king's yellow
Leipzig yellow
lime yellow
Lucifer yellow
Martius yellow
mellow yellow
mountain clouded yellow
naphthalene yellow
naphthol yellow
Naples yellow
pale clouded yellow
pinard yellow
royal yellow
safety yellow
saffron yellow
second yellow card
selective yellow
single yellow line
southern yellow pine
spotless grass yellow
strontium yellow
summer yellow
the yellow peril
upright yellow-sorrel
visual yellow
wear yellow stockings
western yellow pine
western yellow wagtail
yellow acacia
yellow admiral
yellow-ammer
yellow anaconda
yellow anemone
yellow arsenic
yellow ash
yellow atrophy
yellow baboon
yellow-back
yellow back
yellow badge
yellow bark
yellow bear
yellow bedstraw
yellow beet
yellow-bellied
yellow-bellied fairy-fantail
yellow-bellied fantail
yellow-bellied sapsucker
yellow-bellied sea snake
yellow-bellied slider
yellow-bellied tit
yellow bells
yellowbelly
yellow belly
yellow bile
yellow-billed chough
yellow-billed cuckoo
yellow-billed duck
yellow-billed egret
yellow-billed grosbeak
yellow-billed kite
yellow-billed loon
yellow-billed spoonbill
yellow-billed teal
yellow-billed tit-tyrant
yellow birch
yellowbird
yellow-bird
yellow bird's-nest
yellow bittern
yellow bob
yellow bone
Yellow Book
yellow box
yellow boy
yellow brain
yellow brain fungus
yellow-breasted bunting
yellow-breasted chat
yellow-breasted greenfinch
yellow brick road
yellow-brick road
yellow bristle grass
yellow broom
yellow-browed antbird
yellow-browed bunting
yellow-browed tit
yellow-browed warbler
yellow bugle
yellow bullhead
yellow bunting
yellow cab
yellow cake
yellow card
yellow-card
yellow cedar
yellow centaury
yellow-cheeked tit
yellow cobra
yellow coltsfoot
yellow coneflower
yellow copper
yellow copperas
yellow crazy ant
yellow-crescent blister beetle
yellow cross liquid
yellow-crowned
yellow-crowned bishop
yellow dock
yellow dog
yellow dog contract
yellow dog Democrat
yellow dog fund
yellow dragon disease
yellow dryad
yellow dwarf
yellow earth
yellow-edged pygarctia
yellow elder
yellow-eyed babbler
yellow-eyed grass
yellow-eyed penguin
yellowface
yellow false indigo
yellow fat disease
yellow fever
yellow flag
yellow flax
yellow-flowered water hyssop
yellow flycatcher
yellow fumitory
yellow garden spider
yellow goat
yellow-golds
yellow goods
yellow grease
yellow-green alga
yellow-green brushfinch
yellow gum
yellow-haired
yellowhammer
yellow-hammer
yellow hammer
yellow harlequin
yellow-headed amazon
yellow-headed blackbird
yellow hill ant
yellow horde
yellow iris
yellowish
yellowism
yellow jack
yellow-jacket
yellow jacket
yellow jasmine
yellow jersey
yellow jessamine
yellow journalism
yellow journalist
yellow knight
yellow lady's slipper
yellow-legged gull
yellow-legged tinamou
yellow light
yellow light of death
yellow line
yellow-lipped sea krait
yellow locust
yellowly
yellow mai
yellow man
yellow-mantled weaver
yellow meadow ant
yellow media
Yellow Medicine County
yellow menace
yellow metal
yellow Monday
yellow mongoose
yellow moray
yellow nail syndrome
yellow-naped amazon
yellow-necked field mouse
yellow-necked mouse
yellow nigger
yellow nightshade
yellow notice
yellow ochre
yellow off
yellow oleander
yellow onion
yellow-orange
yellow oriole
yellow orpiment
yellow out
yellow pages
yellow paint
yellow passport
yellow patch
yellow pea
yellow pepper
yellow perch
yellow peril
yellow perilist
yellow persimmon
yellow phosphorus
Yellow Pinch
yellow pine
yellow plum
yellow pocket
yellow pond-lily
yellow pond lily
yellow poplar
yellow precipitate
yellow press
yellow prussiate of soda
yellow rain
yellow-rattle
yellow rattle
yellow-red
yellow restharrow
yellow ribbon
Yellow River
Yellow Rock
yellow rocket
yellow-rump
yellow-rumped
yellow-rumped finch
yellow-rumped mannikin
yellow-rumped warbler
yellow sallfly
yellow Sally
yellow salsify
Yellow Sea
yellow seahorse
yellow-shafted flicker
yellow sheet
yellow shirt
yellow shoot disease
yellow-shouldered ladybird
yellow sigatoka
yellowskin
yellow-skinned
yellow slug
yellow snow
yellow soap
yellow sorghum stunt
yellow spot
yellow-spot cadlina
yellow squash
yellow star
yellow state
yellow streak
yellow supergiant
yellowtail
yellow-tailed black cockatoo
yellow tang
yellow tea
yellow terror
yellow thistle
yellow-throated
yellow-throated marten
yellow-throated spadebill
yellow-throated warbler
yellow ticket
yellow tit
yellow toadflax
yellow-toothed cavy
yellow trap
yellow trembler
yellow trillium
yellow trumpetbush
yellow tussock
yellow union
yellow up
yellow-vented bulbul
yellow vest
yellow warbler
yellow wash
yellow waterlily
yellow-weed
yellow-white
yellow willowherb
yellow wine
yellow wood anemone
yellow woodland anemone
yellow woodsorrel
yellow wood sorrel
yellow yarrow
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