a. | 1. | Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal. |
2. | (Bot.) Having a brown color tinged with red, as of flame seen through smoke. | |
3. | (Zool.) Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray. | |
4. | Vivid, sensational, or shocking; graphic or melodramatic; |
Adj. | 1. | lurid - horrible in fierceness or savagery; "lurid crimes"; "a lurid life" |
2. | lurid - glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism; "lurid details of the accident" Synonyms: shocking | |
3. | lurid - shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke; "a lurid sunset"; "lurid flames" | |
4. | lurid - ghastly pale; "moonlight gave the statue a lurid luminence" |