🥤 A drinking tube 🌾 Dried plant stalks 💛 A pale yellow 💛 Pale yellow 🌾 To cover bedding

straw

10 1.8

Having a pale yellow color like dry stalks of grain

adjective
/strɔ/

: pajizo

This one I tempered only two straw yellow, which is less tempering, which means more brittle and stronger.

Examples

Her dress was a beautiful shade of straw yellow, perfectly complementing her sun-kissed skin.
His eyes are buttons, and his hair is straw.

Charlotte's Web (2006)
The artist chose a straw color palette for the landscape to evoke the warm, golden fields of summer.
He painted the walls with a straw hue, giving the room a bright, airy feel.

Synonyms

straw-colored

vsstraw

1 2.7

A pale yellow color like dry straw

is the same color descriptor rather than a texture or shape term

strawlike

vsstraw

4.0

Having the look and feel of dried straw

is focused specifically on the pale yellow color not texture or form

Idioms

last straw

Informal

20 4.4

The final small problem that makes someone lose patience

the last straw

Informal

17 3.9

The final small problem that makes someone lose patience and act

to draw the short straw

Informal

6 6.2

To be chosen by chance to do an unpleasant task

making bricks without straw

Informal

1 9.9

Trying to do something without the things you need

to buy straw hat in winter

Informal

9.9

To make a poor choice at the wrong time

Compounds

straw man

20 7.0

An argument made to be easily attacked instead of the real one

straw poll

18 4.4

A quick not official vote that shows what people think

straw hat

14 1.3

A hat made of straw that protects the face from the sun

straw-colored

1 2.7

A pale yellow color like dry straw

straw vote

1 5.5

A quick unofficial vote to see if people support an idea

straw man

Jargon

1 8.2

A person who appears to own things but hides the real owner often for illegal acts

drinking straw

1 1.0

A thin tube often made of plastic or paper that you use to suck a drink into your mouth

straw boss

Jargon

8.7

A worker who leads other workers but has little power

straw foxglove

9.9

A European plant with soft yellow, tube-shaped flowers

straw wine

7.7

A sweet drink made from grapes dried on straw mats or in the sun

straw woman

9.9

A woman whose name is used to hide the true owner of something

straw man

5.5

A figure made of straw and old clothes used to scare birds from crops

straw mushroom

Indian

5.3

A small mushroom you can eat with a white cap and long stem used in Asian cooking

How Yellow

golden

118 1.0

yellow

819 1.0

straw

10 1.8

pale yellow

4 1.0

off-white

4 3.0

Surface Forms

straw positive

Etymology

The adjective straw comes from the pale yellow color of dried stalks left in the field, the same color you see in sun-bleached hair or hay. So calling something straw means it is a light, pale yellow like dried grass.