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Definition of 'lurid'English
Adjective
( en-adj)
Shocking, horrifying.
- The accident was described with'' ''lurid'' ''detail.
Melodramatic.
Ghastly, pale, wan in appearance.
* Thomson
- Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid flame.
* Tennyson
- Wrapped in drifts of lurid smoke / On the misty river tide.
Being of a light yellow hue.
- Some paperback novels have lurid covers.
- The lurid lighting of the bar made for a very hazy atmosphere.
(botany) Having a brown colour tinged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.
(zoology) Having a colour tinged with purple, yellow, and grey.
( Webster 1913)
Similar to 'lurid'lord, laired, lard, lyard, leered, liard, lured, laird, loured, looard, loord, laroid, larid, lorid, loriid, lored, lered
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