yellow synonyms

yellow

n.

  1. A color

    Hues of yellow include: cream, ivory, old ivory, ivory-yellow, orange-yellow, saffron, jasmine, tawny, sand, gold, sallow, buff, straw, flaxen, alizarin yellow, anilin yellow, lemon yellow, mustard yellow, canary yellow, brilliant yellow, chrome yellow, Dutch pink-yellow, Dutch yellow, gamboge yellow, golden yellow, Imperial yellow, platinum yellow, Manchester yellow or naphthol yellow, yellow carmine, yellow lake, yellow madder, yellow ocher;

  2. Cowardly

    tricky, deceitful, low, cringing, sneaking, white-livered, lily-livered, chicken, craven, treacherous; see also cowardly 1, 2, mean 1.

  3. Sensational; said especially of some newspapers

    lurid, scandal-mongering, muckraking, tabloid, warmongering, chauvinistic, unethical, unprincipled, sexy*, lowbrow*; see also exciting, lewd 1, 2, offensive 2, sensational.

yellow

modif.

Having a yellowish color

yellowish, golden, jaundiced-looking; see yellown.

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