Lurid
['l(j)ʊərɪd] or ['lʊrɪd]
Definition
(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' .
Checker: Newman--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal.
(a.) Having a brown color tonged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.
(a.) Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Gloomy, murky, ghastly, dismal.
Typist: Theodore
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Murky, lowering, {[wan]?}, dismal, gloomy
ANT:Bright, luminous
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Definition
adj. ghastly pale wan: ghastly and sensational: gloomy.—adv. Lū′ridly.
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Examples
- Here and there, some early lamps were seen to twinkle in the distant city; and in the eastern quarter of the sky the lurid light still hovered. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Do you not behold the clouds open, and destruction lurid and dire pour down on the blasted earth? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Excess had brought on that frightful disease that seems to throw the lurid shadows of a coming retribution back into the present life. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Then it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between the stones. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- How safe seemed the darkness and chill of an unkindled hearth when no lurid reflection from terror crimsoned its desolation! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The fires, whose lurid, sullen light had been visible for miles, blazed fiercely up, in the great works and factories of the town. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- When he drew nearer he perceived it to be a spring van, ordinary in shape, but singular in colour, this being a lurid red. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- She gave him an affectionate good-night, and went out with him to the door, whence the fires of Coketown could be seen, making the distance lurid. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- With scarcely a parting glance I turned my eyes again toward Mars, lifted my hands toward his lurid rays, and waited. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
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