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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (4)

1. horrible in fierceness or savagery;
- Example: "lurid crimes"
- Example: "a lurid life"

2. glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism;
- Example: "lurid details of the accident"
[syn: lurid, shocking]

3. shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke;
- Example: "a lurid sunset"
- Example: "lurid flames"

4. ghastly pale;
- Example: "moonlight gave the statue a lurid luminence"



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Lurid \Lu"rid\, a. [L. luridus.]
   1. Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal.
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            Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid flame.
                                                  --Thomson.
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            Wrapped in drifts of lurid smoke
            On the misty river tide.              --Tennyson.
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   2. (Bot.) Having a brown color tinged with red, as of flame
      seen through smoke.
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   3. (Zool.) Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray.
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   4. Vivid, sensational, or shocking; graphic or melodramatic;
      as, the lurid details of a murder.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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: lurid, 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"