lurid : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: lurid	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for lurid
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lurid adj horrible in fierceness or savagery; "lurid crimes"; "a lurid life" glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism; "lurid details of the accident" Synonym(s): lurid, shocking shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke; "a lurid sunset"; "lurid flames" ghastly pale; "moonlight gave the statue a lurid luminence"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lurid \Lu"rid\, a. [L. luridus.] 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. (Zo[94]l.) Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray.