Meanings
- not comparableuncommonNot 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.
1 more example
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
present singular third person unyellows · participle present unyellowing · participle past unyellowed · past unyellowed
- To remove yellow color from.
Origin
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unyellow. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unyellow
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