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yellow-orange

yellow-orange

1 1.9
A color between yellow and orange, like a sunset
  • adjective
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  • The sky was a fathomless wash of pale sapphire that descended to a yellow-orange horizon far beyond the Plain of the Twelve Cities, and the twin red suns, almost touching, were high overhead.
  • yellow-orange glow
  • yellow-orange color
  • luminous yellow-orange

And as I come cross wind, I saw a thin streak of visible yellow orange flame.

Examples

  • The thin clouds gave a ceiling that held color—a yellow-orange against the deeper blue.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • Fishing bats are large, yellow-orange, and rather pungent creatures that can hawk large flying insects or snag small ocean fish from the surf.

    Academic text (2003)

  • Leaves going red and blue at the margins, yellow-orange at the center like the flames themselves.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • They seemed to be mainly blues and greens, with one yellow-orange.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • The windows were curtained with what looked like yellow-orange sheets, so I couldn't see in.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • It smelled like sweat and grass, and was the yellow-orange of persimmons.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • I began to notice potsherds—luminous yellow-orange pieces, like little suns rising out of the ground.

    Academic text (2007)

  • They said it was yellow-orange in color and had a small blue-white tail, which lit up the sky as it headed immediately west for Banjawarn station.

    Blog text (1)

  • The Fk dye was a yellow-orange that produced a golden yellow hue when dyeing was performed in acid baths (Mayer 1943).

    Academic text (2005)

  • The cool breeze accompanied a stunning yellow-orange sunset over the horizon.

Synonyms

orange
vsyellow-orange
577 1.0

Having the color between red and yellow like ripe citrus fruit

is instead the mixed hue that includes a lighter adjacent tint
orangey
vsyellow-orange
  • Informal
2 3.6

A little like the color orange

is a more clearly mixed hue with a noticeable lighter influence
orangish
vsyellow-orange
1 4.0

A color that looks a little like orange between red and yellow

leans more toward the lighter adjacent warm tone than the deeper one
orange-colored
vsyellow-orange
1 1.0

Having the color of a ripe orange

adds a lighter adjacent tone making it less purely solid
yellowish-orange
vsyellow-orange
1 3.0

A colour between yellow and orange, like a sunset

is the specific warm hue positioned between two adjacent warm tones
orange-hued
vsyellow-orange
3.6

Having the color of a ripe orange

includes a stronger lighter admixture rather than being mainly pure

How Orange

orange
577 1.0
yellow-orange
1 1.9

Surface Forms

yellow-orange positive

Morphology

yellow-orange = yellow + orange (transparent) = yellow + orange

A straightforward compound of two colour words; its meaning (a hue between yellow and orange) is directly derived from its parts.

Etymology

The word yellow-orange is simply formed from yellow and orange, so it means a color that sits 'between yellow and orange'. A helpful way to remember it is to think of the fruit orange, which often has a yellow shine in sunlight, so yellow-orange describes an orange colour with a clear touch of yellow.