'Lurid' definitions:
Definition of 'lurid'
From: WordNet
adjective
Horrible in fierceness or savagery; "lurid crimes"; "a lurid life"
adjective
Glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism; "lurid details of the accident" [syn: lurid, shocking]
adjective
Shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke; "a lurid sunset"; "lurid flames"
adjective
Ghastly pale; "moonlight gave the statue a lurid luminence"
Definition of 'Lurid'
From: GCIDE
- Lurid \Lu"rid\, a. [L. luridus.]
- 1. Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal. [1913 Webster]
- Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid flame. --Thomson. [1913 Webster]
- Wrapped in drifts of lurid smoke On the misty river tide. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Bot.) Having a brown color tinged with red, as of flame seen through smoke. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Zool.) Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Vivid, sensational, or shocking; graphic or melodramatic; as, the lurid details of a murder. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'lurid'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- 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,
- red-dyed,
- red-looking,
- reddened,
- reddish,
- reddish-amber,
- reddish-brown,
- 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