English

Adjective

lurid ‎(comparative more lurid, superlative most lurid)

1. Shocking, horrifying.

   The accident was described with lurid detail.

2. Melodramatic.
3. 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.

4. Being of a light yellow hue.

   Some paperback novels have lurid covers.

   The lurid lighting of the bar made for a very hazy atmosphere.

5. (botany) Having a brown colour tinged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.
6. (zoology) Having a colour tinged with purple, yellow, and grey.

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