Associations to the word «Lurid»
Noun
- Torture
- Orb
- Atrocity
- Pale
- Exploitation
- Colour
- Vengeance
- Countenance
- Plunge
- Scandal
- Fog
- Reflection
- Imagination
- Shadow
- Volcano
- Spectacle
- Shade
- Allegation
- Pink
- Pornography
- Lantern
- Yellow
- Fiction
- Picture
- Burning
- Sinking
- Terror
- Wedge
- Shed
- Fire
- Lighting
- Glimpse
- Color
- Fantasy
- Lamp
- Recess
- Reviewer
- Account
- Sun
- Murder
- Heaven
- Newspaper
- Scene
- Consensus
- Sexuality
- Stain
- Vapor
- Satan
- Dark
- Shout
- Atmosphere
- Wrath
- Comet
- Beam
- Imagery
Adjective
Wiktionary
LURID, adjective. Shocking, horrifying.
LURID, adjective. Melodramatic.
LURID, adjective. Ghastly, pale, wan in appearance.
LURID, adjective. Being of a light yellow hue.
LURID, adjective. (botany) Having a brown colour tinged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.
LURID, adjective. (zoology) Having a colour tinged with purple, yellow, and grey.
Dictionary definition
LURID, adjective. Horrible in fierceness or savagery; "lurid crimes"; "a lurid life".
LURID, adjective. Glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism; "lurid details of the accident".
LURID, adjective. Shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke; "a lurid sunset"; "lurid flames".
LURID, adjective. Ghastly pale; "moonlight gave the statue a lurid luminence".
Wise words
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -
in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us
to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions
all of a color.