yellow adj
1: similar to the color of an egg yolk [syn: yellowish, xanthous]
2: easily frightened [syn: chicken, chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow-bellied]
3: changed to a yellowish color by age; "yellowed parchment" [syn: yellowed]
4: typical of tabloids; "sensational journalistic reportage of the scandal"; "yellow journalism" [syn: scandalmongering, sensationalistic, yellow(a)]
5: cowardly or treacherous; "the little yellow stain of treason"-M.W.Straight; "too yellow to stand and fight"
6: affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc [syn: jaundiced, icteric] n : the quality or state of the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons [syn: yellowness] v : turn yellow; "The pages of the book began to yellow"