yellowish
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| —n | |
| 1. | any of a group of colours that vary in saturation but have the same hue. They lie in the approximate wavelength range 585--575 nanometres. Yellow is the complementary colour of blue and with cyan and magenta forms a set of primary coloursRelated: xanthous |
| 2. | a pigment or dye of or producing these colours |
| 3. | yellow cloth or clothing: dressed in yellow |
| 4. | the yolk of an egg |
| 5. | a yellow ball in snooker, etc |
| 6. | any of a group of pieridine butterflies the males of which have yellow or yellowish wings, esp the clouded yellows (Colias spp.) and the brimstone |
| —adj | |
| 7. | of the colour yellow |
| 8. | yellowish in colour or having parts or marks that are yellowish: yellow jasmine |
| 9. | having a yellowish skin; Mongoloid |
| 10. | informal cowardly or afraid |
| 11. | offensively sensational, as a cheap newspaper (esp in the phrase yellow press) |
| —vb | |
| 12. | to make or become yellow |
| Related: xanthous | |
| [Old English geolu; related to Old Saxon, Old High German gelo, Old Norse gulr, Latin helvus] | |
| 'yellowish | |
| —adj | |
| 'yellowly | |
| —adv | |
| 'yellowness | |
| —n | |
| 'yellowy | |
| —adj | |
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Yellowish
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example sentences
The yellowish part in the upper right of this false color image is that volcanic vent.
Then, they stop moving around so much and start to turn a yellowish color and get more tan, and that's the pupa forming.
People can be made to see reddish green and yellowish blue-colors forbidden by theories of color perception.
The colors were these amazing bright blue, green and a little bit of yellowish color.
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