About The Word Lurid

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Lurid

Lurid Meaning & Definition
Lurid Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Lurid?

[adj] shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke; "a lurid sunset"; "lurid flames"
[adj] ghastly pale; "moonlight gave the statue a lurid luminence"
[adj] glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism; "lurid details of the accident"
[adj] horrible in fierceness or savagery; "lurid crimes"; "a lurid life"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Lurid: bright | colorless | colourless | sensational | shocking | violent

Related Terms | Find terms related to Lurid: achromatic | achromic | affected | aglow | anemic | appalling | ashen | ashy | awful | baleful | Barnumesque | bawdy | bedizened | beige | big-sounding | blanched | blatant | bled white | blinding | bloodless | blue | brazen | brazenfaced | bricky | brown | brownish | brownish-yellow | brunet | burning | cadaverous | cardinal | carmine | carnation | carnelian | cerise | cherry | cherry-colored | cherry-red | chloranemic | chocolate | cinnamon | cloak-and-dagger | cocoa | cocoa-brown | coffee | coffee-brown | colorful | colorless | convoluted | corpselike | crimson | crude | damask | dead | deadly | deadly pale | deathlike | deathly | deathly pale | declamatory | dim | dimmed | dingy | dirty | discolored | disgusting | doughy | drab | dull | dun | dun-brown | dun-drab | ecru | eerie | elevated | etiolated | euphuistic | exsanguinated | exsanguine | exsanguineous | extravagant | faded | faint | fallow | fawn | fawn-colored | ferruginous | Fescennine | fiery | filthy | fire-red | flagrant | flamboyant | flame-colored | flame-red | flaming | flaring | flashy | flat | flaunting | foul | foul-mouthed | foul-spoken | foul-tongued | frightful | fulsome | fuscous | garish | gaudy | ghastly | ghostlike | ghostly | glaring | glowering | glowing | Gongoresque | gorgeous | gory | grandiloquent | grandiose | grandisonant | graphic | gray | grege | grim | grisly | gruesome | gules | haggard | hazel | hideous | highfalutin | high-flowing | high-flown | high-flying | high-sounding | horrendous | horrible | horrid | horrifying | hot | hueless | hypochromic | impure | incarmined | inflamed | infrared | inkhorn | iron-red | ithyphallic | Johnsonian | khaki | labyrinthine | lackluster | lake-colored | laky | lateritious | leaden | lewd | lexiphanic | livid | lobster-red | lofty | loud | lusterless | macabre | magniloquent | malefic | maroon | mat | mealy | melodramatic | meretricious | mortuary | muddy | nasty | neutral | nut-brown | obscene | obtrusive | offensive | olive-brown | olive-drab | orotund | ostentatious | overbright | overdone | overelaborate | overinvolved | overwrought | pale | pale as death | pale-faced | pallid | pasty | pedantic | pompous | pornographic | port-wine | pretentious | puce | Rabelaisian | raunchy | raw | red | reddened | reddish | reddish-amber | reddish-brown | red-dyed | red-looking | revolting | rhetorical | ribald | rubicund | rubiginous | rubric | rubricose | ruby | ruby-colored | ruby-red | ruddied | ruddy | rufescent | rufous | rust | rust-red | rusty | salacious | sallow | scarlet | screaming | scurrile | scurrilous | seal | seal-brown | sensational | sensationalistic | sententious | sepia | shameless | shocking | showy | shrieking | sickly | sinister | smoking-room | smutty | snuff-colored | sonorous | sorrel | spectacular | spine-chilling | stammel | startling | stilted | sultry | tabloid | tall | tallow-faced | tan | taupe | tawdry | tawny | terrible | terrifying | tile-red | Titian | Titian-red | toast | toast-brown | toneless | tortuous | umber | umber-colored | uncanny | unchaste | unclean | uncolored | unearthly | unprintable | unrepeatable | vermilion | vile | vinaceous | vivid | vulgar | walnut | walnut-brown | wan | warm | washed-out | waxen | weak | weird | whey-faced | white | wine | wine-colored | wine-red | yellow | yellowish-brown

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Lurid In Webster's Dictionary

\Lu"rid\, a. [L. luridus.] 1. Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal. Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid flame. --Thomson. Wrapped in drifts of lurid smoke On the misty river tide. --Tennyson. 2. (Bot.) Having a brown color tonged with red, as of flame seen through smoke. 3. (Zo["o]l.) Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray.

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