Englishyellow
adjective
1 bright yellow flowers | the man with the yellow hair:
yellowish, yellowy, lemon, lemony, amber, gold, golden;
blond, light brown, fair, flaxen.
2 informal he'd better get back there quick and prove he's not yellow:
cowardly, lily-livered, faint-hearted, chicken-hearted, pigeon-hearted, craven, spiritless, spineless, timid, timorous, fearful, trembling, quaking, shrinking, cowering, afraid of one's own shadow, pusillanimous, weak, feeble, soft;
informal chicken, weak-kneed, gutless, yellow-bellied, wimpish, wimpy, sissy, sissified;
British, informal wet;
North American, informal candy-assed;
North American, vulgar slang chickenshit;
archaic poltroon, recreant, poor-spirited.
▷antonyms brave, courageous.