Garish vs. Yellow

Overly ostentatious; so colourful as to be in bad taste.

Example: ‘The dress fits her well, but the pattern is rather garish.’;

Showy; dazzling; ostentatious; attracting or exciting attention.

Example: ‘Garish like the laughters of drunkenness.’;

Gay to extravagance; flighty.

Example: ‘It makes the mind loose and garish.’;

tastelessly showy;

Example: ‘a flash car’; ‘a flashy ring’; ‘garish colors’; ‘a gaudy costume’; ‘loud sport shirts’; ‘a meretricious yet stylish book’; ‘tawdry ornaments’;

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Having yellow as its colour.

(informal) Lacking courage.

Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.

Far East Asian relating to Asian people.

Of mixed Aboriginal and Caucasian ancestry.

High yellow.

Related to the Liberal Democrats.

Example: ‘yellow constituencies’;

(politics) Related to the Free Democratic Party of Germany.

Example: ‘the black-yellow coalition’;

The colour of gold, butter, or a lemon; the colour obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting blue from white light.

(US) The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, the illumination of which indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so.

(snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.

(pocket billiards) One of two groups of object balls, or a ball from that group, as used in the principally British version of pool that makes use of unnumbered balls (the (yellow(s) and red(s)); contrast stripes and solids in the originally American version with numbered balls).

(sports) A yellow card.

(intransitive) To become yellow or more yellow.

(transitive) To make (something) yellow or more yellow.

Being of a bright saffronlike color; of the color of gold or brass; having the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is between the orange and the green.

Example: ‘Her yellow hair was browded [braided] in a tress.’; ‘A sweaty reaper from his tillage broughtFirst fruits, the green ear and the yellow sheaf.’; ‘The line of yellow light dies fast away.’;

Cowardly; hence, dishonorable; mean; contemptible; as, he has a yellow streak.

Sensational; - said of some newspapers, their makers, etc.; as, yellow journal, journalism, etc.

A bright golden color, reflecting more light than any other except white; the color of that part of the spectrum which is between the orange and green.

A yellow pigment.

To make yellow; to cause to have a yellow tinge or color; to dye yellow.

To become yellow or yellower.

the quality or state of the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons

turn yellow;

Example: ‘The pages of the book began to yellow’;

similar to the color of an egg yolk

easily frightened

changed to a yellowish color by age;

Example: ‘yellowed parchment’;

typical of tabloids;

Example: ‘sensational journalistic reportage of the scandal’; ‘yellow journalism’;

cowardly or treacherous;

Example: ‘the little yellow stain of treason’; ‘too yellow to stand and fight’;

affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc

of the colour between green and orange in the spectrum, a primary subtractive colour complementary to blue; coloured like ripe lemons or egg yolks

Example: ‘curly yellow hair’;

having a naturally yellowish or olive skin (as used to describe Chinese or Japanese people).

denoting a warning of danger which is thought to be near but not actually imminent

Example: ‘he put Camp Visoko on yellow alert’;

not brave; cowardly

Example: ‘he'd better get back there quick and prove he's not yellow’;

showing jealousy or suspicion.

(of a style of writing, especially in journalism) lurid and sensational

Example: ‘he based his judgement on headlines and yellow journalism’;

yellow colour or pigment

Example: ‘the craft detonated in a blaze of red and yellow’; ‘a wide range of colours from rich vibrant reds, yellows, blues, and greens to more unexpected pastel shades’;

yellow clothes or material

Example: ‘everyone dresses in yellow’;

a yellow ball or piece in a game or sport, especially the yellow ball in snooker

Example: ‘he missed an easy yellow in frame four’;

used in names of moths or butterflies that are mainly yellow in colour.

any of a number of plant diseases in which the leaves turn yellow, typically caused by viruses and transmitted by insects.

become yellow, especially with age

Example: ‘the cream paint was beginning to yellow’;

Yellow is the color between orange and green on the spectrum of visible light. It is evoked by light with a dominant wavelength of roughly 575–585 nm.