PALE YELLOW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pale yellow mean? 

• PALE YELLOW (noun)
  The noun PALE YELLOW has 1 sense:

1. a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white

  Familiarity information: PALE YELLOW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PALE YELLOW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

pale yellow; straw; wheat

Hypernyms ("pale yellow" is a kind of...):

yellow; yellowness (yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons)

 Context examples 

Coat colors come in solid white, or white with patches of tan, wolf-gray or pale yellow.

(Great Pyrenees, NCI Thesaurus)

The windows of the room had before been darkened, and I felt a kind of panic on seeing the pale yellow light of the moon illuminate the chamber.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

A pale yellow, oily, highly toxic, volatile, liquid alkylating compound with a sweet to garlic-like odor that evaporates to a poisonous gas.

(Mustard Gas, NCI Thesaurus)

Two were dark, and had high aquiline noses, like the Count, and great dark, piercing eyes that seemed to be almost red when contrasted with the pale yellow moon.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The coat comes in red, fawn, brindle, pale yellow or washed-out red, or white, and can combine any of these colors.

(English Bulldog, NCI Thesaurus)

A pale yellow aromatic hydrocarbon consisting of five fused rings and is produced by the incomplete combustion of organic matter.

(Benzo[k]fluoranthene, NCI Thesaurus)

The coat comes in red, fawn, brindle, pale yellow or washed-out red, or white.

(Bulldog, NCI Thesaurus)

A pale yellow, crystalline solid nitrosamine that decomposes when exposed to light and emits toxic fumes of nitrogen oxides when heated to decomposition.

(N-Nitrososarcosine, NCI Thesaurus)

A pale yellow, oily liquid nitrosamine with a characteristic odor that is light sensitive and emits toxic fumes of nitrogen oxides when heated to decomposition.

(N-Nitrosodiethanolamine, NCI Thesaurus)

A pale yellow, crystalline nitrosourea that is sensitive to light and moisture and emits toxic fumes of nitrogen oxides when heated to decomposition.

(Methylnitrosourea, NCI Thesaurus)