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Yellow - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: yellow
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: cowardly
Synonyms: chicken*, craven, deceitful, gutless, lily-livered*, low, offensive, pusillanimous, treacherous, tricky, unethical, unprincipled, sneaking
Antonyms: bold, brave, confident
Main Entry: yellow
Part of Speech: noun, adjective
Definition: sunny color
Synonyms: amber, blond, buff, cream, gold, lemon, tawny, bisque, chrome, ivory, saffron, sand, xanthous
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Main Entry: yellow
Part of Speech: adjective, noun, adjective
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Adjectives:
amber, ash blond, aureate, aurulent, blonde, canary, champagne, chrysal, citrine, citron, cream, fallow, flavescent, flavicomous, flavous, fulvid, fulvous, gold, goldenrod, honey, jaundiced, lemon, lutescent, oatmeal, primrose, sallow, straw, sulfur, sunshine, tawny, xanthic, xanthodont, xanthous, yellow, yellow as a crow's foot, yellow as a guinea, yellow as a quince
Main Entry: coward
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person who is scared, easily intimidated
Synonyms: alarmist, baby*, caitiff, chicken*, craven, cur, dastard, deserter, funk, gutless*, malingerer, mouse*, pessimist, poltroon, quitter, rabbit*, recreant, shirk, shirker, sneak, weakling, wimp*, yellow*, chicken heart, chicken liver, faint-of-heart, faintheart, fraidy-cat, invertebrate, jellyfish, lily liver, scaredy cat, skulker, white liver, yellow belly
Antonyms: aggressor, hero
Main Entry: cowardly
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fearful
Synonyms: afraid, anxious, apprehensive, backward, base, caitiff, craven, dastardly, diffident, fainthearted, frightened, gutless, jittery, lily-livered*, nervous, paper tiger*, pusillanimous, recreant, retiring, scared, shrinking, shy, soft*, spineless*, timid, timorous, weak, worthless, yellow*, chicken-hearted, cowering, cowhearted, dismayed, having the willies, lacking courage, no guts, panicky, pigeonhearted, running scared, weak-kneed, yellow-bellied
Antonyms: bold, brave, courageous, daring, dauntless, unafraid, undaunted, unfearful
Main Entry: craven
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: weak, timid
Synonyms: chicken*, cowardly, dastardly, fearful, gutless, lily-livered*, mean-spirited, pusillanimous, scared, timorous, yellow*, poltroonish, weak-kneed, wimpish, wimpy, wussy, yellow-bellied
Antonyms: bold, brave, courageous, heroic, strong
Main Entry: fainthearted
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: timid
Synonyms: afraid, cowardly, fearful, frightened, gutless, intimidated, lily-livered*, meek, mousy, spineless, weak, yellow*, cowed, cowering, having cold feet, unassertive, wimpy
Main Entry: frightened
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very scared
Synonyms: abashed, afraid, aghast, alarmed, anxious, chicken*, fearful, frozen, hung up*, jittery, jumpy, lily-livered*, mousy*, numb, petrified, shaky, sissy*, startled, terrified, uptight, yellow*, affrighted, butterflies, chicken-hearted, cowed, dismayed, have cold feet, having kittens, in a cold sweat, in a panic, in a sweat, jellyfish, panicky, pushing the panic button, rabbity, running scared, scared stiff, shivery, spooked, terror-stricken, terrorized, unnerved
Antonyms: calm, happy, comforted
Main Entry: gutless
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: timid
Synonyms: abject, chicken*, coward, cowardly, craven, feeble, irresolute, lily-livered*, pusillanimous, spineless*, submissive, weak, yellow*, chicken-hearted, faint-hearted, wimpy, yellow-bellied
Antonyms: bold, brave, courageous, gutsy, resolute
Main Entry: jaundiced
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: tainted, prejudiced
Synonyms: biased, bigoted, bitter, colored, cynical, distorted, envious, hostile, intolerant, jealous, one-sided, opprobrious, partial, partisan, prepossessed, skeptical, spiteful, suspicious, unfair, unfriendly, yellow, disapproving, grudging, preconceived, resentful, tendentious, unindifferent, warped
Antonyms: clean, fresh, unbiased, unprejudiced
Main Entry: lurid
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: shocking, gruesome
Synonyms: ashen, bloody, deep, disgusting, distinct, exaggerated, extreme, fiery, ghastly, gory*, graphic, grim, grisly, hideous, horrible, livid, macabre, melodramatic, obscene, off-color*, offensive, purple*, racy, raunchy, revolting, rough, salty, sanguine*, savage, sensational, sinister, startling, terrible, terrifying, violent, vivid, yellow*, horrid, horrifying, low-down
Notes: lurid means horrible in fierceness or savagery or glaringly graphic, while livid means very angry or furious
Antonyms: clean, humble, modest
Main Entry: milksop
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: coward
Synonyms: baby*, caitiff, chicken heart, chicken liver, chicken*, cry-baby, deserter, fraidy-cat, jellyfish, lily liver, momma's boy, namby-pamby, pansy, pantywaist, quitter, scaredy cat, sissy*, weakling, wimp, wuss, wussy, yellow, yellow belly
Main Entry: namby-pamby
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: pansy
Synonyms: baby*, caitiff, chicken heart, chicken liver, chicken*, coward, cry-baby, fraidy-cat, jellyfish, lily liver, milksop, momma's boy, pantywaist, quitter, scaredy cat, sissy*, weakling, wimp, wuss, wussy, yellow, yellow belly
Main Entry: sneaky
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: underhanded, dishonest
Synonyms: base, contemptible, cowardly, deceitful, devious, disingenuous, double-dealing*, duplicitous, furtive, indirect, low, malicious, mean, nasty, recreant, secretive, shifty, slippery, sly, snide, stealthy, surreptitious, tricky, underhand, unreliable, unscrupulous, untrustworthy, yellow*, guileful, sneaking
Antonyms: aboveboard, candid, forthright, frank, honest
Main Entry: spineless
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: cowardly
Synonyms: fearful, feeble, frightened, gutless*, impotent, inadequate, ineffective, ineffectual, irresolute, lily-livered*, nerveless, soft, spiritless, squeamish, submissive, timid, vacillating, weak, weak-willed, yellow*, amoebalike, faint-hearted, forceless, invertebrate, pithless, weak-kneed, yellow-bellied
Antonyms: bold, brave, strong
Main Entry: timid
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: shy
Synonyms: afraid, ambivalent, apprehensive, bashful, capricious, cowardly, coy, demure, diffident, fainthearted, fearful, feeble, frightened, gentle, humble, intimidated, irresolute, modest, mousy, nervous, pusillanimous, retiring, shaky, shrinking, soft, spineless, spiritless, submissive, timid, timorous, vacillating, wavering, weak, yellow*, badgered, browbeaten, bullied, cowed, cowering, daunted, having cold feet, milquetoast, trembling, unassertive, unassured, unnerved
Antonyms: bold, brave, daring, extroverted, fearless
Main Entry: vegetable
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: edible part of plant
Synonyms: edible, green, produce, root, salad, truck, yellow, greens, herb, herbaceous plant, legume
Main Entry: primary color
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: three basic colors
Synonyms: blue, primary, red, yellow, primary pigment, primitive color
Main Entry: recreant
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: cowardly
Synonyms: afraid, apostate, arrant, base, craven, dastardly, disloyal, faithless, false, fearful, frightened, gutless, hesitant, low, mean-spirited, perfidious, scared, spiritless, timid, timorous, traitorous, treacherous, unfaithful, unmanly, vile, yellow*, yielding, cowering, defecting, falsehearted, pigeonhearted, skulking, sneaking
Antonyms: brave, courageous, loyal
Main Entry: fearful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: alarmed, apprehensive
Synonyms: afraid, aghast, agitated, anxious, chicken, diffident, disturbed, fainthearted, frightened, hesitant, intimidated, jittery, jumpy, lily-livered*, mousy, nerveless, nervous, nervy, perturbed, phobic, pusillanimous, scared, shaky, sheepish*, shrinking, shy, skittish, solicitous, spineless, tense, timid, timorous, tremulous, uneasy, unmanly, worried, yellow*, aflutter, chickenhearted, discomposed, disquieted, goose-bumpy, have cold feet, in a dither, panicky, quivery, rabbity, running scared, weak-kneed
Antonyms: bold, brave, courageous, unafraid, inapprehensive, unfearful
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