Yellow (Adjective)

Meaning ¹

Changed to a yellowish color by age; "yellowed parchment".

Classification

All adjective clusters.

Synonyms

• Yellowed

Meaning ²

Easily frightened.

Classification

All adjective clusters.

Usages

• Colloquialism

Synonyms

• White-livered
• Chickenhearted
• Lily-livered
• Chicken
• Yellow-bellied

Meaning ³

Affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc.

Classification

All adjective clusters.

Synonyms

• Icteric
• Jaundiced

Meaning ⁴

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

Classification

All adjective clusters.

Meaning ⁵

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

Classification

All adjective clusters.

Synonyms

• Yellowish
• Xanthous

Related Words

• Yellow (noun)
• Yellowness (noun)

Meaning ⁶

Typical of tabloids; "sensational journalistic reportage of the scandal"; "yellow press".

Classification

All adjective clusters.

Synonyms

• Sensationalistic
• Scandalmongering