Definitions for: 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"



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: bright, colorless, colourless, sensational, shocking, violent

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