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orange yellow

orange yellow

2.8
A bright yellow color with a small touch of orange
  • noun
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  • The sunset painted the sky in a beautiful shade of orange yellow.

Examples

  • Some formulations may stain porous materials an orange-yellow color.

    Academic text (1994)

  • I was curled up on the couch, a low orange-yellow thing in that tweedy material from the 1960s and 1970s, crying my heart out.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • I lit the candles just as my mother had asked me to do, and the first light of their orange-yellow flame, starting up as I took the match away, reminds me still of calendulas about to bloom.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • The painter chose an orange yellow for the sunflowers in her artwork.

  • The school bus was a bright orange yellow, easy to spot from a distance.

Synonyms

saffron
vsorange yellow
3 4.0

A deep yellow color with a touch of orange

is brighter and paler with only a slight warm tint
ocher
vsorange yellow
  • US
1 7.9

A warm orange-yellow color like autumn leaves

is brighter and less earthy in overall appearance

How Orange

orange
577 1.0
orange yellow
2.8
golden
118 1.0
yellow
819 1.0
pale yellow
4 1.0

Surface Forms

orange yellow singular
orange yellows plural

Morphology

orange + yellow

The phrase 'orange yellow' is a straightforward compositional color description: a learner who knows 'orange' and 'yellow' can infer it denotes a yellow hue with an orange tinge. This follows ordinary color-combination patterns common across languages, so the meaning is directly derivable from the constituents.

Etymology

Orange yellow comes from the simple idea of mixing bright yellow with a little orange, creating a warm, sunny color. That's why the name means 'a bright shade of yellow with a touch of orange'.