YELLOW Synonyms

• being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes

• a person with fair skin and hair

• a light grayish yellow to near white

• an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use

• a fighter who strikes the opponent with his head

• spread butter on

• someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police

• a female singer

• a moderate yellow with a greenish tinge

• any of several small Old World finches

• having the color of a canary; of a light to moderate yellow

• sweetened mixture of milk and eggs baked or boiled or frozen

• any of numerous varieties of Narcissus plants having showy often yellow flowers with a trumpet-shaped central crown

• coins made of gold

• a deep yellow color

• a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia

• great wealth

• something likened to the metal in brightness or preciousness or superiority etc.

• made from or covered with gold

• having the deep slightly brownish color of gold

• yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh

• a strong yellow color

• a small evergreen tree that originated in Asia but is widely cultivated for its fruit

• a distinctive tart flavor characteristic of lemons

• an artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory

• tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times

• a strong yellow color

• in a mellow manner

• unhurried and relaxed

• having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging

• softened through age or experience

• slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana)

• soften, make mellow

• become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial

• make or grow (more) mellow

• any of several cruciferous plants of the genus Brassica

• pungent powder or paste prepared from ground mustard seeds

• leaves eaten as cooked greens

• any of various earths containing silica and alumina and ferric oxide; used as a pigment

• a moderate yellow-orange to orange color

• of a moderate orange-yellow color

• a tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated in the tropics

• large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated

• Old World crocus having purple or white flowers with aromatic pungent orange stigmas used in flavoring food

• dried pungent stigmas of the Old World saffron crocus

• a shade of yellow tinged with orange

• plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder

• material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds

• a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white

• a thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth

• of a pale yellow color like straw; straw-colored

• cover or provide with or as if with straw

• spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic)

• the flesh of a chicken used for food

• a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl

• a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy

• a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops

• easily frightened

• easily frightened

• lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted

• affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc

• affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc

• showing or affected by prejudice or envy or distaste