yellow
- noun
- /ˈjɛloʊ/
- Complementary colors, such as blue and yellow, are located on opposite sides of the triangle.
- blue and yellow
- green and yellow
- red and yellow
This T-shirt comes in red, blue, yellow, green and brown.
- This T-shirt comes in red, blue, yellow, green and brown.
- Now these are I got yellow, soft pink and translucent.
Examples
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Today, they range in color from bright orange, yellow, and vermilion to soft shades of pink.
Academic text (2001) -
A few hours of rain and a little wind, the yellow was gone.
Academic text (2003) -
And they are usually green, yellow, red or black.
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- So do you like the color yellow?
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We're gonna paint the bathroom yellow.
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Yellow is for creativity, logic and other powers of the mind.
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The city's downtown is now a festival of amber, yellow, and silver lights below.
Fiction book (1992) -
My favorite color is yellow because it reminds me of sunshine.
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The walls of her bedroom are painted a soft shade of yellow.
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The yellow flowers bloomed beautifully in the garden this spring.
Synonyms
A deep shiny yellow color like the metal used for coins and jewelry
A very strong yellow color that is easy to see
A bright yellow color like the skin of a ripe citrus fruit
A light yellow colour that looks soft and not bright
A deep yellow color with a touch of orange
A bright yellow like the outside of a lemon
A bright yellow color like a canary's feathers
A strong yellow color like ripe corn
A pale creamy yellow color like cake icing
A shade of yellow, like pale or bright yellow
A bright yellow color with a small touch of orange
Idioms
- Informal
To start a journey into the unknown that brings adventure and personal change
Compounds
- Specialized
A serious disease spread by mosquitoes that makes the skin turn yellow
- Literature
Reporting that exaggerates and uses shocking stories to attract readers while ignoring the truth
The second-longest river in northern China that flows east to the Yellow Sea and has yellow mud
A small aggressive wasp with yellow and black stripes that often builds nests in the ground
- Specialized
A bright yellow pigment made from cadmium used in painting that is poisonous
- US
A freshwater fish with a yellow body and dark stripes, caught for food and sport
- Jargon
An alert warning people about a specific emergency, for example bad weather or a missing person
- Literature
A reporter who writes exaggerated or shocking stories to attract readers
A small woodpecker with a pale yellow belly that drills rows of holes in trees to eat sap and insects
- Specialized
A sticky plant with hanging yellow flowers that grows in dry places in the southwestern United States
A small wild flower that has soft hairy leaves and yellow petals with purple veins
- Specialized
A North American wild flower with greenish-yellow pouch-shaped flowers and purple marks
- Irish
A clover with yellow flowers that grows in Ireland and is often seen as the real shamrock
- Specialized
A virus that makes onion plants small and their leaves turn yellow
- Specialized
A virus that makes onion plants grow poorly and their leaves turn yellow
- Specialized
A disease of potato plants that makes leaves yellow and plants small
- Specialized
A germ that makes potato plants small and their leaves turn yellow
- Australian
A tall Australian plant with yellow flowers that comes back each year
A large pine tree with short needles in groups of two or three and reddish brown bark when fully grown
A large pine tree from the southeastern United States with long needles and rough reddish bark used for timber
A plant that lives many years with yellow flowers that smell nice and leafy stems
- Specialized
A small freshwater fish with yellowish colour that looks like a striped bass
- Specialized
A small North American spring flower with one yellow spotted blossom
- Specialized
A small shrub with yellow daisy-like flowers that grows in dry Mediterranean areas
- UK
A low-growing plant with yellow flowers that have red dots and smell faintly of pine
- Specialized
Tissue inside the hollow part of long bones in adults that stores fat
A common plant that lives for many years with small yellow flowers and sticky stems
How Yellow
Surface Forms
Etymology
Yellow as a noun comes from the same old English root geolu and is the name for the color you see in sunflowers and ripe lemons, so it means that particular color.