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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 See Also \| 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.

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"

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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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