bright yellow
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1.0
- adjective
- /braɪt ˈjɛloʊ/
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- She wore a bright yellow raincoat, making her easy to spot on the grey, rainy day.
- wear a bright yellow
Like the butter there is bright yellow, creamy.
- Like the butter there is bright yellow, creamy.
- It was, yeah, it was started out bright yellow, like kind of just bleached blonde look.
- So this figure shows the sun would be one of these bright yellow circles.
- I remember she had this bright yellow freaking Volvo, amazing as a little kid.
Examples
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The factory had a cheerful atmosphere with the walls painted in bright yellow and the furniture modern.
Fiction book (2000) -
My dress was indeed beautiful; it was bright yellow with a frilled border on the skirt and shoulder.
Fiction book (1993) -
And he had this bright yellow book that was about red Indians.
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So this figure shows the sun would be one of these bright yellow circles.
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Driving a bright yellow Range Rover.
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There was tape over the elevator doors and a bright yellow certificate stuck on one of them.
Fiction book (1997) -
It's like this crazy bright yellow color and it's just really loose and has a little bow right there where it ties.
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Drawing it out, I noticed the bright yellow business card Ms. Thompson had given me.
Fiction book (2001) -
Wearing a bright yellow turban.
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But she'd already switched her attention to a bright yellow ball that was rolling along the tunnel floor.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
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2.5
A bright yellow like the outside of a lemon
Antonyms
How Bright
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a vivid and intense shade of yellow' is directly and compositionally derived from combining 'bright' (vivid/intense) with 'yellow' (the color). This adjective + color modification pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English semantics, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the phrase.
Etymology
Bright yellow comes from the simple image of strong sunlight and safety jackets. Bright means full of light and yellow is a vivid color like the sun, so it stands out and is used for things that are 'easy to see'.