yellow

Verb

• turn yellow
  • The pages of the book began to yellow
    

Noun

• yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons

Adjective

• affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc

• cowardly or treacherous
  • the little yellow stain of treason-M.W.Straight
    
  • too yellow to stand and fight
    

• typical of tabloids
  • sensational journalistic reportage of the scandal
    
  • yellow press
    

• changed to a yellowish color by age
  • yellowed parchment
    

• easily frightened

• of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  yellowness , jaundiced , icteric , scandalmongering , sensationalistic , yellow(a) , yellowed , chicken , chickenhearted , lily-livered , white-livered , yellow-bellied , yellowish , xanthous