Definitions for yellows

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yellows yel·lows

Spelling: [yel-ohz]

IPA: /ˈyɛl oʊz/

Yellows is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 119 anagrams from letters in yellows (elloswy).

Definitions for yellows

noun

1. Plant Pathology. a disease of plants, characterized by stunting and the loss of chlorophyll.
2. Veterinary Pathology. jaundice.
3. Obsolete. jealousy.
4. a color like that of egg yolk, ripe lemons, etc.; the primary color between green and orange in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 570 and 590 nm.
5. the yolk of an egg.
6. a yellow pigment or dye.
7. Informal. yellow light.
8. Slang. yellow jacket (def 2).

adjective

1. of the color yellow.
2. Disparaging and Offensive. designating or pertaining to an Asian person or Asian peoples. designating or pertaining to a person of mixed racial origin, especially of black and white heritage.
3. having a sallow or yellowish complexion.
4. Informal. cowardly.
5. (of a newspaper, book, etc.) featuring articles, pictures, or other content that is sensational, especially morbidly or offensively so: dishonest in editorial comment and the presentation of news, especially in sacrificing truth for sensationalism, as in yellow journalism; yellow press.
6. jealous; envious.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to make or become yellow:

Origin of yellows

1555-65; yellow (noun) + -s³

Examples for yellows

There were bright greens, yellows, oranges, and reds -- all marching down the runway.

Capitola beat up the yellows, gradually mixing the sugar with it.

He saw the leaves a glossy brown, or glowing in reds or yellows.

On the whole, the palette cannot be considered so well furnished with reds as with yellows.

There she had created a mixture of all colors—violent reds and yellows.

Lawrence Osborne on the tragedy and surreal beauty of the political battle between the opposing yellows and Reds.

Everywhere there were yellows and reds and the silver sheen of the roads.

Below him, a great curving disk of reds and browns and yellows.

And that rests upon the greens and grays and yellows of the Belted Shales.

All these yellows are duller at the horizon than a little way above.