yellow

yellow
adj
1. golden, gold, aureate, aurific, gilt; honey, xanthous, xanthic, butter, gambogian, quince yellow, zinc yellow, primrose; saffron, daffodil, topaz, banana, jonquil, cadmium yellow, canary yellow; lemon, citron, lutescent, luteous; tawny, amber, ocherous, ochery, buff, fulvous, fallow, ecru; blond, flaxen, yellowish, sandy, straw-colored, stramineous.
2. jaundiced, Pathol. icteric, sallow, xanthoderma-tous.
3. Mongolian, Mongoloid, Oriental, Asiatic; Chinese, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Thai, Laotian, Siamese.
4.Informal. cowardly, craven, pusillanimous, Inf. mousy, Sl. chicken; timid, timorous, fearful, afraid, frightened; faint-hearted, weak-kneed, lily-livered, Inf. chicken-hearted, pigeon-hearted; unmanly, cringing, groveling, slinking, sniveling, sneaking; panicky, Inf. funky, daunted, intimidated, afraid of one's shadow.
5.(of journalism) sensational, lurid, sordid, blood-and-thunder; scandal-mongering, muckraking; melodramatic, Barnumesque.

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