English Dictionary

yellow

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈjɛl.əʊ/

形容詞

くだけた表現 軽蔑的 民族名 攻撃的 差別語 オーストラリア英語 古風 アメリカ英語 イギリス英語

Having yellow as its color. / (informal) Lacking courage. / (publishing, journalism) Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.

日本語の意味

色が黄色である、黄色を持つ状態 / （非公式に）臆病で勇気がない、たじろぐ / （出版・ジャーナリズムで）センセーショナリズムや扇情的な内容、信頼性に欠ける表現が特徴である

She wore a yellow scarf to the concert last night.

彼女は昨夜のコンサートに黄色いスカーフを着けていた。

意味（1）

Having yellow as its color.

A sweaty reaper from his tillage brought / First fruits, the green ear and the yellow sheaf.

意味（2）

(informal) Lacking courage.

What you should be is not yellow at all. If you're supposed to sock somebody in the jaw, and you sort of feel like doing it, you should do it.

意味（3）

(publishing, journalism) Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.

The denizens of the gossipy world of the pink press, purple prose and yellow tabloids are shivering over disputed photographs of Princess Caroline of Monaco.

意味（4）

(chiefly derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Of the skin, having the colour traditionally attributed to Far East Asians, especially Chinese.

They were all tall and all handsome, though they varied in their degree of darkness of skin, some being as dark as Mahomed, and some as yellow as a Chinese.

意味（5）

(chiefly derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Far East Asian (relating to Asian people).

Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril incarnate in one man.

意味（6）

(dated, Australia, offensive) Of mixed Aboriginal and Caucasian ancestry.

Eh, Oscar—you hear about your yeller nephew?.

意味（7）

(dated, US) Synonym of high yellow

Charley threw her over for a yellow gal named Nancy: he never forgave Vashti for the vanishing from his life of a menace that had come to mean more to him than Vashti herself.

意味（8）

(UK politics) Related to the Liberal Democrats.

2012 March 2, Andrew Grice, Yellow rebels take on Clegg over NHS 'betrayal', The Independent

意味（9）

(politics) Related to the Free Democratic Party; a political party in Germany.

the black-yellow coalition

yellower （ comparative ）

more yellow （ comparative ）

yellowest （ superlative ）

most yellow （ superlative ）