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unyellow

unyellow adjective: not yellow (in various senses).

Adjective

unyellow (not comparable)

  1. (uncommon) Not yellow (in various senses).
    • May 22, 1901, Ambrose Bierce, letter to George Sterling
      I'm glad the Journal is not to have it, for it now goes into the Washington Post — and the Post into the best houses here and elsewhere — a good, clean unyellow paper.
    • It was not in his unyellow soul to go back on his word without refunding the money, and a dollar of it was already spent to the Chinese fund, to say nothing of sundaes and sodas and whips.1994, Grace Livingston Hill, The City of Fire, page 29

Verb

unyellow (third-person singular simple present unyellows, present participle unyellowing, simple past and past participle unyellowed)

  1. To remove yellow color from.

Forms of unyellow

third-person singular presentunyellows
present participleunyellowing
past participleunyellowed
pastunyellowed

Origin of unyellow

From un- + yellow.

Words formed from unyellow

  • unyellower

Questions about unyellow

What does unyellow mean?
Unyellow means not yellow (in various senses).
What part of speech is unyellow?
Unyellow can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near unyellow in the dictionary

  1. unyeaned
  2. unyearned-for
  3. unyearning
  4. unyeasted
  5. unyelled
  6. unyellow
  7. unyellowed
  8. unyielded
  9. unyielding
  10. unyieldingly
  11. unyieldingness

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