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All yellow synonyms

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adjective yellow

  • creamy — Food or drink that is creamy contains a lot of cream or milk.
  • beige — Something that is beige is pale brown in colour.
  • buttery — Buttery food contains butter or is covered with butter.
  • milky — of or like milk, especially in appearance or consistency.
  • sallow — of a sickly, yellowish or lightish brown color: sallow cheeks; a sallow complexion.
  • wan — of an unnatural or sickly pallor; pallid; lacking color: His wan face suddenly flushed.
  • pale — light-colored or lacking in color: a pale complexion; his pale face; a pale child. lacking the usual intensity of color due to fear, illness, stress, etc.: She looked pale and unwell when we visited her in the nursing home.
  • ashen — Someone who is ashen looks very pale, especially because they are ill, shocked, or frightened.
  • pallid — pale; faint or deficient in color; wan: a pallid countenance.
  • sickly — not strong; unhealthy; ailing.
  • washed-out — faded, especially from washing.
  • cowardly — If you describe someone as cowardly, you disapprove of them because they are easily frightened and avoid doing dangerous and difficult things.
  • chicken — Chickens are birds which are kept on a farm for their eggs and for their meat.
  • craven — Someone who is craven is very cowardly.
  • low — to utter by or as by lowing.
  • offensive — causing resentful displeasure; highly irritating, angering, or annoying: offensive television commercials.
  • sneaking — acting in a furtive or underhand way.
  • deceitful — If you say that someone is deceitful, you mean that they behave in a dishonest way by making other people believe something that is not true.
  • gutless — lacking courage, fortitude, or determination.
  • lily-livered — weak or lacking in courage; cowardly; pusillanimous.
  • pusillanimous — lacking courage or resolution; cowardly; faint-hearted; timid.
  • treacherous — characterized by faithlessness or readiness to betray trust; traitorous.
  • tricky — given to or characterized by deceitful tricks; crafty; wily.
  • unethical — lacking moral principles; unwilling to adhere to proper rules of conduct.
  • unprincipled — lacking or not based on moral scruples or principles: an unprincipled person; unprincipled behavior.

noun yellow

  • amber — Amber is a hard yellowish-brown substance used for making jewellery.
  • bisque — a thick rich soup made from shellfish
  • blond — (of men's hair) of a light colour; fair
  • buff — Something that is buff is pale brown in colour.
  • chrome — (as modifier)
  • cream — Cream is a thick yellowish-white liquid taken from milk. You can use it in cooking or put it on fruit or desserts.
  • goldHerbert, born 1924, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
  • ivory — the hard white substance, a variety of dentin, composing the main part of the tusks of the elephant, walrus, etc.
  • lemon — the yellowish, acid fruit of a subtropical citrus tree, Citrus limon.
  • saffron — Also called vegetable gold. a crocus, Crocus sativus, having showy purple flowers.
  • sandGeorge [jawrj;; French zhawrzh] /dʒɔrdʒ;; French ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), (Lucile Aurore Dupin Dudevant) 1804–76, French novelist.
  • tawny — of a dark yellowish or dull yellowish-brown color.
  • xanthous — yellow.
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