Thesaurus: lurid

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1. a. Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal.
2. a. Having a brown color tonged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.
3. a. Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray.
4. adj. horrible in fierceness or savagery
5. adj. glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism
6. adj. shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke
7. adj. ghastly pale
8. 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. (Zoöl.) Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray.
9. Having a brown color tonged with red, as of flame seen throughsmoke.
10. j:100 s. horrible in fierceness or savagery s. glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism s. shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke s. ghastly pale