yellow

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsyellowness

   Broaderchromatic color

   Narrowercanary yellowamberbrownish yellowgambogeold goldorange yellowpale yellowgreenish yellow

1. 1.

   turn yellow

   “The pages of the book began to yellow”

   Broaderdiscolor

Other forms of yellow

plural

yellows·

past tense

yellowed·

present participle

yellowing·

comparative

yellower·

superlative

yellowest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about yellow

What does yellow mean?

yellow means "of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in yellow?

yellow has 2 syllables: yel-low. The stress falls on "yel". In IPA it is /ˈjɛloʊ/.

What is another word for yellow?

Close synonyms include yellowish, xanthous, chicken, chickenhearted, lily-livered. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is yellow a common word?

yellow is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.