lurid at CMU American English spelling Of Explained:
['luərəd]
lurid at English => English (English Etymology) Of Explained:
1656, from L. luridus "pale yellow, ghastly" (cognate with Gk. chloros), of unknown origin. The figurative sense of "sensational" is first attested 1850. ///
lurid at English => English (Longman) Of Explained:
adj [Date: 1600-1700; Language: Latin; Origin: luridus 'pale yellow', from luror 'pale yellow color']//
1 a description, story etc that is lurid is deliberately shocking and involves sex or violence: explicit// --lurid headlines// --He told me in lurid detail what would happen to me.//
2 too brightly coloured: gaudy// --a lurid orange dress// -- luridly adv //
lurid at English => English (Moby Thesaurus II) Of Explained:
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
lurid at English => English (English Thesaurus) Of Explained:
[ADJ] (Darkness): dark, obscure, pitch dark, pitch black, black, sunless, lightless, somber, dusky, nocturnal, dingy, lurid, gloomy, murky, shady, overcast, dim, cloudy, opaque, darkened, benighted.
[ADJ] (Darkness): dim, dull, lackluster, dingy, darkish, dark, faint, cloudy, misty, opaque, nebulous, overcast, crepuscular, muddy, lurid, leaden, dirty.
lurid at English => English (Oxford Advanced Learners) Of Explained:
adjective (disapproving)
1 too bright in colour, in a way that is not attractive:
She was wearing a lurid orange and green blouse.
2 (especially of a story or piece of writing) shocking and violent in a way that is deliberate:
lurid headlines * The paper gave all the lurid details of the murder.
luridly adverb
Lurid at English => English (Websters 1913) Of Explained:
Lurid \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.
lurid at English => English (WordNet) Of Explained:
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"
lurid at English (WD) Of Explained:
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English
Etymology
From Inter: etyl » la Inter: term » luridus|lūridus|pale yellow, wan|lang=laPronunciation
* Inter: a » GenAm Inter: IPA » /ˈlʊrɪd/|/ˈlɔrɪd/Adjective
Inter: en-ad » jInter: Webster 191 » 3
Translations
Inter: trans-top » ghastly, pale or wan in appearance- French: Inter: t+ » fr|blafard|m|f
Inter: trans-mi » d
Inter: trans-botto » m
Inter: trans-top » being of a light yellow hue
- French: Inter: t+ » fr|jaunâtre|m|f
- German: Inter: t+ » de|grell
Inter: trans-mi » d
Inter: trans-botto » m
Inter: trans-top » shocking, horrifying
- Dutch: Inter: t- » nl|luguber
- French: Inter: t+ » fr|choquant|m, Inter: t+ » fr|choquante|f
Inter: trans-mi » d
Inter: trans-botto » m
Inter: trans-top » melodramatic
- Czech: Inter: t- » cs|melodramatický|m
Inter: trans-mi » d
Inter: trans-botto » m
Inter: checktrans-to » p
- German: reißerisch (description)
Inter: trans-mi » d
Inter: trans-botto » m
Translation: cs » lurid
Translation: de » lurid
Translation: et » lurid
Translation: fa » lurid
Translation: fr » lurid
Translation: ko » lurid
Translation: io » lurid
Translation: it » lurid
Translation: kn » lurid
Translation: hu » lurid
Translation: mg » lurid
Translation: ml » lurid
Translation: my » lurid
Translation: pl » lurid
Translation: ru » lurid
Category: simple:lurid -
Translation: fi » lurid
Translation: ta » lurid
Translation: te » lurid
Translation: vi » lurid
Translation: zh » lurid