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Definition: Yellowish |
YellowishAdjective1. Similar to the color of an egg yolk. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "yellowish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Yellow is the color of light whose wavelength is between 565nm and 590nm or is a mixture of red and green light, that appears to be the same color. On a browser that supports visual formatting in Cascading Style Sheets, the following box should appear yellow:
Yellow is also one of the primary pigments.
Usage, symbolism, colloquial expressions
Yellow is a bright cheerful color, but in the English language, yellow is associated with cowardice. A coward is said to have a "yellow belly". It can also mean that something is tainted, as in the expression "yellow journalism".
The Beatles recorded a song called The Yellow Submarine.
Yellow was the symbol for the Emperor of China and consequently of the Chinese monarchy. It was also the color of the New Party on Taiwan.
Yellow, in international political organizations, is the color for liberalists (see Political party).
Yellow is also a colour associated with being scared, or afraid.
In some countries, taxies are commonly yellow.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Yellow."
Synonyms: YellowishSynonyms: xanthous (adj), yellow (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Yellowish |
| Specialty definitions using "yellowish": atrophy of the optic nerve ♦ calculus II, campylite, cape diamond, Carrara porcelain, COSTUS VILLOSISSIMUS ♦ diadochite, dunstone ♦ Emajaguilla ♦ ferric alum, ferric ammonia alum, ferric ammonium sulphate ♦ guaiacol, Gunn dots ♦ honey stone ♦ iron alum, iron stain ♦ krantzite ♦ malthacit, mordenite ♦ optic atrophy ♦ parian-ware, pseudoxanthoma, Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum, pseudoxanthoma-elasticum ♦ rosin tin ♦ semifusain, sun stone ♦ type 2 blemish ♦ wheelerite ♦ yellow ground. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "yellowish": Cirrhosis. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | An immature trophozoite of P. vivax is shown at the top of the slide in its characteristic ring shape, while the mature trophozoites contain large ameboid cytoplasms with large chromatin and fine yellowish brown pigment. Credit: CDC. |  | Rectenwald, Dean Heckathorn, Nick Iadanza at the Spring Creek arm of Keswick Reservoir. The yellowish area under the water is sludge. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Dehydration turns the snake poison into very fine yellowish crystals ... / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by D. Henrioud.. | ||
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| "Queen Anne's Lace (Daucus car" by Bobbie Osborne Commentary: "(Daucus carota) Wild carrot is edible when young but the root (especially the center) soon gets tough. It is yellowish in color, spindle-shaped, slender, firm and woody; a pernicious weed in some areas. ." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The various shades of the sand are singularly rich and agreeable, embracing the different iron colors, brown, gray, yellowish, and reddish |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Symptoms and signs include a burning sensation when urinating and a yellowish white discharge from the penis. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Yellowish" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 94.90% of the time. "Yellowish" is used about 98 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 94.9% | 93 | 34,067 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.08% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 98 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "yellowish": yellow yellowish ♦ yellowish brown ♦ yellowish brown lateritic soil ♦ yellowish green ♦ yellowish pink. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "yellowish": yellowish-brown, yellowish-buff, yellowish-gray, yellowish-green, yellowish-grey, yellowish-ochre, yellowish-to, yellowish-white. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
brown yellowish | 12 |
pink yellowish | 5 |
discharge yellowish | 4 |
semen yellowish | 4 |
discharge vaginal yellowish | 4 |
brown color yellowish | 3 |
sperm yellowish | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "yellowish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | verdhosh (yellowy), i zverdhemë. (various references) | |
Arabic | مصفر (pallid, wan, yellowed, yellowy), ضارب الى الصفرة (yellowy). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | възжълт (yellowy), жълтеникав (sallow, xanthic, yellowy). (various references) | |
Chinese | 淡黄色. (various references) | |
Czech | nažloutlý (sallow), žlutavý (yellowy). (various references) | |
Danish | lysgullig hudfarve (yellowish complexion), gullig skimmel (yellowish mould), gilvor (yellowish complexion). (various references) | |
Dutch | gilvor (yellowish complexion), geelachtige schimmel (yellowish mould). (various references) | |
Farsi | مایل بزردی , زردفام . (various references) | |
Finnish | kellertävä (tinged with yellow). (various references) | |
French | tirant sur le jaune (yellowed), jaunâtre (yellowy). (various references) | |
German | gelblich (sallow, yellowy). (various references) | |
Greek | κιτρινωπόσ (buff, fallow, straw-colored, straw-coloured), κιτρινωπός, ωχρόσ (ghastly, haggard, pale, pallid, sallow, wan). (various references) | |
Hebrew | כתמתם, צהבהב (yellowy). (various references) | |
Hungarian | sárgás (green, muddy, sallow, yellowy). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kekuningan. (various references) | |
Italian | giallastro (sallow, sickly, yellowy). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 黄味がかった (cream-coloured). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きみがかった (cream-coloured). (various references) | |
Manx | ouyr (dun, pale yellow, tawny, yellow-dun), lieh-wuigh, lheeah-wuigh, lesh y wuigh. (various references) | |
Norwegian | gulaktig. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | yellowishay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sobre o amarelo, amarelento (sallow, yellowy), amarelado (gold, sallow). (various references) | |
Romanian | galben (ghastly, jaundiced, wan, xanthous, yellow), gãlbui (flavescent, flaxen), gãlbior. (various references) | |
Russian | желтоватый (sallow, yellowy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | žućkast (xanthous, yellowy). (various references) | |
Spanish | amarillento (ginger, yellowy). (various references) | |
Swedish | gulaktig (yellowy). (various references) | |
Turkish | sarımtırak (flavescent), sarımsı (flavescent, yellowy). (various references) | |
Turkmen | saryяagyz (sallow). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | жовтуватий (sallow, xanthous, yellowy). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vàng vàng (yellowy), hơi vàng (yellowy). (various references) | |
Welsh | melynaidd (tawny). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Yellowish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: yellowfish. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "yellowish" (pronounced 'Yel"low*ish'): Abolish, Accomplish, Admonish, Affamish, Aguish, Alish, Alumish, Amateurish, Anchoretish, Animalish, Apish, Arrish, Aspish, Assish, Astonish, Babish, Baboonish, Babyish, Babylonish, Baddish, Balkish, Banish, Bardish, Basquish, Batfish, Bearish, Beauish, Bish, Bitterish, Blackish, Blandish, Blindfish, Blockish, Bluish, Bluntish, Boarfish, Boarish, Bobbish, Bogglish, Boobyish, Bookish, Boorish, Borough-English, Boyish, Brackish, Brainish, Brigandish, Brinish, Broadish, Brockish. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-i-l-l-o-s-w-y" | |
-1 letter: owlishly. | |
-2 letters: hilloes, hollies, showily, yellows. | |
-3 letters: helios, hellos, hillos, holies, holily, hoyles, isohel, lowish, owlish, shelly, slowly, solely, whiles, wholes, wholly, wisely, yellow, yowies. | |
-4 letters: heils, helio, hello, hells, helos, hillo, hills, hilly, hoise, holes, holey, holly, hosel, howes, howls, hoyle, lewis, lisle, losel, lowes, lowly, lowse, lweis, shell, sheol, shiel, shill, shily. | |
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