Lurid

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lurid \Lu"rid\, a. [L. luridus.]
     1. Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal.
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              Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid flame.
                                                    --Thomson.


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              Wrapped in drifts of lurid smoke
              On the misty river tide.              --Tennyson.
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     2. (Bot.) Having a brown color tinged with red, as of flame
        seen through smoke.
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     3. (Zool.) Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray.
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     4. Vivid, sensational, or shocking; graphic or melodramatic;
        as, the lurid details of a murder.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lurid
       adj 1: horrible in fierceness or savagery; "lurid crimes"; "a lurid
              life"
       2: glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism;
          "lurid details of the accident" [syn: {shocking}]
       3: shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through
          smoke; "a lurid sunset"; "lurid flames"
       4: ghastly pale; "moonlight gave the statue a lurid luminence"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  302 Moby Thesaurus words for "lurid":
     Barnumesque, Fescennine, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Rabelaisian,
     Titian, Titian-red, achromatic, achromic, affected, aglow, anemic,
     appalling, ashen, ashy, awful, baleful, 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, 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, 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,
     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, 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, 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