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How to pronounce yellow in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms xanthous, yellowish
Derivation yellowness
Type Words
Synonyms yellowness
Type of chromatic color, spectral colour, chromatic colour, spectral color
Has types saffron, brownish yellow, canary, canary yellow, gamboge, gold, greenish yellow, lemon, lemon yellow, maize, old gold, orange yellow, pale yellow, amber, straw, wheat
Type Words
Synonyms scandalmongering, sensationalistic


yellow press.
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Synonyms chicken, chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow-bellied
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Synonyms icteric, jaundiced
Type Words
Synonyms yellowed


yellowed parchment.
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the little yellow stain of treason.
too yellow to stand and fight.
Type Words
Type of discolour, colour, color, discolor


The pages of the book began to yellow.

Examples of yellow

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Yes, there is ground beef, yellow cheese, diced pickles and mustard on this one.
From the orlandosentinel.com
A baby, wrapped in a yellow blanket, lay beside Johnson's teenage granddaughter.
From the denverpost.com
Their hometown fans have turned the streets of Morganfield yellow with bandanas.
From the kentucky.com
Detectives remained at the home, cordoned by a ribbon of yellow tape, for hours.
From the post-gazette.com
Sorting out my thoughts onto the small yellow lined pad was strangely rewarding.
From the post-gazette.com
Place red and yellow peppers on baking sheet, turning as each side is blackened.
From the dailyherald.com
Keighley were reduced to 14 men for the last eight minutes due to a yellow card.
From the keighleynews.co.uk
Paper-thin yellow or white omelet strips add a quirky touch and finally a sauce.
From the forbes.com
When you wake you'll find a yellow pill on a spoon beside a glass of soda water.
From the telegraph.co.uk
More examples
  • Yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons
  • Of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk
  • Turn yellow; "The pages of the book began to yellow"
  • Chicken: easily frightened
  • Changed to a yellowish color by age; "yellowed parchment"
  • Scandalmongering: typical of tabloids; "sensational journalistic reportage of the scandal"; "yellow press"
  • Yellow is the color evoked by light that stimulates both the L and M (long and medium wavelength) cone cells of the retina about equally, with no significant stimulation of the S (short-wavelength) cone cells. ...
  • Yellow is a 1998 film directed by Chris Chan Lee. The film is about the harrowing graduation night of eight Korean-American high school youths in Los Angeles that culminates in a violent crime that will forever change their lives.
  • Yellow is a 2006 film starring Roselyn Sanchez.