lurid Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite horrible in fierceness or savagery
    • lurid crimes
    • a lurid life
  2. adjective satellite glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism
    shocking.
    • lurid details of the accident
  3. adjective satellite shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke
    • a lurid sunset
    • lurid flames
  4. adjective satellite ghastly pale
    • moonlight gave the statue a lurid luminence

WordNet

Lu"rid adjective
Etymology
L. luridus.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913