Synonyms for yellow
- adjective
- noun
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Chicken
chicken, cowardly, chicken-hearted, fearful, yellow-bellied, spineless, gutless, craven, lily-livered, white-livered dated, uncourageous rare
4. Lurid
Other
old, high yellow, aureate rare
Noun
Definitions
- adj. 1
Of a yellow hue.
He had a yellow laptop in his bag.
- adj. 2
Lacking courage.
- adj. 3
Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.
- n. 1
The color of sunflower petals and lemons; the color obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting blue from white light; the color evoked by light of wavelength around 580 nm; one of the three primary colors in subtractive color systems.
Related words
- Word family
- yeldrin yellow-bellied yellowcrown yellowfin yellowhead yellowish yellowness yellow-red
- Phrases
- common yellow oxalis common yellow woodsorrel yellow wood sorrel yellow poplar yellow broom yellow jacket yellow peril western yellow pine
- Is a kind of
- color hue pigment
Forms
- Plural
- yellows → ambers, goldens, golds, lemons…
Example sentences
- yellowish Yellowish leafs can be synonym for plagues.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| yellow | steady | |
| yellowish | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- old1
- 4 letters
- gold1, buff1, ecru2
- 5 letters
- cream1, lemon2, amber2, lurid2
- 6 letters
- golden2, craven2, fallow2, sallow
- 7 letters
- chicken2, fearful2, saffron2, gutless2, aureate, icteric
- 8 letters
- cowardly3, ochreous, ocherous, xanthous
- 9 letters
- yellowish3, spineless2, dandelion4, jaundiced2
- 10 letters
- yellowness
- 11 letters
- sensational4
- 12 letters
- uncourageous
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (ecru2 = 2 syllables).